Emile DurkheimIrrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. ✨ Emile Durkheim (2005). Suicide: A Study in Sociol… ▶351Love
Emile DurkheimOne 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 i… ▶352Life
Emile DurkheimFrom top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality se… ▶353Truth
Emile DurkheimSadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole c… ▶365SadnessThought
Emile DurkheimThe term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result <… ▶345Death
Emile DurkheimThe man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. ✨ John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). Suicide,… ▶368Reflection
Emile DurkheimFor 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 … ▶3710PhilosophyTime
Emile DurkheimMan is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vani… ▶347HumanityLifeTime
Emile DurkheimA social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a giv… ▶369HumanityReadingTime
Emile DurkheimManiacal 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 … ▶304Thought
Emile DurkheimIt is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any exte… ▶326Humanity
Emile DurkheimA 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 … ▶305PoliticsThoughtTime
Emile DurkheimEven one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.317Politics
Emile DurkheimThe first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things. ✨ The Rules of Sociological Method: And Selected Texts on Sociology and Its Method.317ReflectionTruth
Emile DurkheimMan's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by… ▶251HumanityLife
Emile DurkheimTo pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness. ✨ John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). S… ▶306Politics
Emile DurkheimIt 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 certa… ▶3310HumanitySadnessTruth
Emile DurkheimWe do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it. ✨ Emile Durkheim (2014). The Division of Labor in Society, p.64, Simon and Schuster319Humanity
Emile DurkheimThe totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative co… ▶3110HumanityLifeTime
Emile DurkheimWhile 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… ▶243Politics
Emile DurkheimA religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single… ▶244Time
Emile DurkheimMelancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect… ▶211HumanityPoliticsSadness
Emile DurkheimWhen morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.234Politics
Emile DurkheimSocialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.2710Sadness
Emile DurkheimWhen mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. ✨ Attributed to Emile Durkheim in Readings in Renewing American Civiliz… ▶181HumanityPoliticsReading
Emile DurkheimEach new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular. ✨ John A. Spaulding, George … ▶203Reflection
Emile DurkheimAn 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. ✨ Emi… ▶259Philosophy
Emile DurkheimEach victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained… ▶2610Love
Emile DurkheimMan could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melanchol… ▶193Sadness
Emile DurkheimReality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. ✨ Emile Durkheim (2005). Suicide: A Study in Sociology, p.216,… ▶171Truth
