Analysis Quote by 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 he is formed.”

Emile Durkheim

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

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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 not by a material…

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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