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Men Quotes by Emile Durkheim
- Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity.…
- Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment…
- The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
- For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves…
- The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are…
- It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it…
- Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
- It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
- Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him…
- Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in…
- That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an…
- There are two types of men: the great and the small.
- It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men…
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