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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again,…
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to…
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according…
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Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its…
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The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved,…
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs…
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by…
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Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a…
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the…
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Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according…
— Emile Durkheim
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
— Oscar Wilde
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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the…
— Archibald Alexander
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing…
— Huston Smith
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There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's…
— Allan Bloom
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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum…
— Milan Kundera
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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
— George Bernard Shaw
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