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Only 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.…
- Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
- Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
- 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…
- Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes…
- 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…
- The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath…
- There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights.…
- The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of…
- Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
- From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a…
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