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• 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

  Wise, Men, Knowing

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.217, Routledge

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

  Emile Durkheim

  Character, Names, Historical

  Emile Durkheim (2014). “The Rules of Sociological Method: And Selected Texts on Sociology and its Method”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Sadness, Light, Facts

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sick, Healthy, Desire

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Reflection, Men, Should Have

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• 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

  Religious, Loss, Men

  W. S. F. Pickering, Emile Durkheim (2011). “Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks”, p.55, Casemate Publishers

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• By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sacred, Definitions, Break

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• 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

  Causes, Argument, Proof

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.124, Routledge

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• It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Class, Luxury

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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

  Emile Durkheim

  Feelings, Capacity, Force

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.208, Routledge

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• 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

  Religious, Philosophy, Science

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• 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

  Religious, Two, Fundamentals

  W. S. F. Pickering, Emile Durkheim (2011). “Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks”, p.113, Casemate Publishers

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• An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.

  Emile Durkheim

  Different, Behaviour, Actors

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.41, Routledge

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• While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.

  Emile Durkheim

  Order, Energy, Molecules

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• Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, Order, Hallucinations

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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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 of a law.

  Emile Durkheim

  Science, Law, Enough

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• 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

  Christian, Country, Thinking

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Long, Notion

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• It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sadness, Mean, Doe

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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