"To pursue a goal which is by definition……" — Emile Durkheim
"To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness."
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64 Quotes by Emile Durkheim
Emile Durkheim has 64 quotes on this site.
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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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More Condemn Quotes
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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
— Georges Bernanos
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Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking…
— David Cameron
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
— Albert Camus
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If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as…
— Richard Carmona
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our…
— Jimmy Carter
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize…
— Deepak Chopra
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before…
— Huldrych Zwingli
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I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of…
— Gene Roddenberry
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
— Lionel Trilling
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which…
— Emile Durkheim
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Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.
— Georg Groddeck
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