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Which Quotes by Emile Durkheim
- Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently,…
- To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
- It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it…
- It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
- 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…
- By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.
- That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an…
- A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy…
- Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
- 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…
- 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,…
- It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men…
- Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
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