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Religion Quotes by Emile Durkheim
- 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 roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All…
- 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.
- If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
- 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…
- A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations…
- Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of…
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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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