Causes Quote by Emile Durkheim

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because…

— Emile Durkheim

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

— Emile Durkheim

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material…

— Emile Durkheim

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that…

— Emile Durkheim

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

— Emile Durkheim

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active…

— Emile Durkheim

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

— Emile Durkheim

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

— Emile Durkheim

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

— Emile Durkheim

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

— Emile Durkheim

The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs.…

— Emile Durkheim

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name…

— Emile Durkheim