Émile Durkheim quotes - page 3

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. (Émile Durkheim)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 intellectual life. View quote
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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 of infinity; this does not change its nature. View quote
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Every society is a moral society. View quote
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Once the generality of the phenomenon has been established, one can, by showing its utility, confirm the results of the first method. We may, therefore, formulate the three following rules: # A social fact is normal, in relation to a given social type at a given phase of its development, when it is present in the average society of that species at the corresponding phase of its evolution. # One can verify the results of the preceding method by showing that the generality of the phenomenon is bound up with the general conditions of collective life of the social type considered. # This verification is necessary when the fact in question occurs in a social species which has not yet reached the full course of its evolution. (Émile Durkheim)
Once the generality of the phenomenon has been established, one can, by showing its utility, confirm the results of the first method. We may, therefore, formulate the three following rules:. View quote
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This verification is necessary when the fact in question occurs in a social species which has not yet reached the full course of its evolution. View quote
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