Abandoned Quote by Emile Durkheim

“Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.”

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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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