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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,…
• An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to…
• Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according…
• Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its…
• The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.
• Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved,…
• Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs…
• Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by…
• Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a…
• 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…
• Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

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