"Each new generation is reared by its predecessor;……" — Emile Durkheim
"Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular."
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64 Quotes by Emile Durkheim
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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint;…
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be…
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and…
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Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which…
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The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he…
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which…
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed…
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Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment…
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to…
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Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it…
— Toni Cade Bambara
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Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and…
— Alister E. McGrath
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath…
— Walter Raleigh
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The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its…
— Alfred Stieglitz
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When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad…
— Paul Newman
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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses…
— Saint Augustine
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Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get…
— Penelope Leach
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... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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...the possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that…
— Unknown Author
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Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and…
— William Zinsser
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Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning…
— Zhuangzi
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