Famous Quotes / Emile Durkheim
14 Quotations by Emile Durkheim
- 1. A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks qu ...
- 2. Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special c ...
- 3. From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. ...
- 4. It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply ...
- 5. It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the tim ...
- 6. Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by be ...
- 7. Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, socia ...
- 8. One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracte ...
- 9. Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplatio ...
- 10. The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundi ...
- 11. The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with o ...
- 12. There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different fo ...
- 13. Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found ...
- 14. While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon indivi ...