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One Quotes by Emile Durkheim
- Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general…
- Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.
- One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of…
- While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships,…
- A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times,…
- If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action…
- A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices…
- The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one…
- One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of…
- The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another,…
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