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When man discovered the mirror...

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

For a long time it has been kn...

For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

Science cannot describe indivi...

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

There is a collective as well ...

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

Religious representations are ...

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

Faith is not uprooted by diale...

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

Religious phenomena are natura...

Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

The Christian conceives of his...

The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

A person is not merely a singl...

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

Our whole social environment s...

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

A society whose members are un...

A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

Man seeks to learn, and man ki...

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

That men have an interest in k...

That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

There is no society known wher...

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

Too cheerful a morality is a l...

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

It is only by historical analy...

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 83 quotes

Sociological method as we prac...

Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if th

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

The wise man, knowing how to e...

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

When mores are sufficient, law...

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

Man cannot become attached to ...

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

Emile Durkheim 83 quotes

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