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Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Circular Each Generation Improve Latter Movement Must New New Generation Order Successor Therefore

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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

Topics: Church Common Fact Find History Ideas Members Practices Profane Regard Relations Religion Sacred Same Single Society Think Translate United Way Whose Without World

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

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Environment Exist Filled Forces Minds Only Our Own Really Seems Social Us Which Whole

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Sadness 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 cloth.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Cloth Contemplation Create Does Mere Our Out Own Product Reach Sadness Things Thought Through Us Whole World

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If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Because Birth Essential Given Idea Religion Society Soul

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Each 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 by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Act Cannot Causes Conditions Consequently Each Explained Expresses General Gives He His Involved Personal Phenomenon Social Special Stamp Suicide Temperament Victim Which

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There are two types of men: the great and the small.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Great Men Small Two Types

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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

Topics: Admit Applied Been Consequently Date Early Everyone Interest Knowing Men Readily Reflection Should Something Surrounds Them Which Will World

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The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Causes Circumstances Constantly Constitution Definite Definitely Disturbance Equally Him Himself His Individual Lacks Maintain Mental Moral Only Organized Possessing Society State Surprise Taken Through

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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

Topics: Because Becomes Certainly Cohesion Desire Disorganized Does He Himself His Knowledge Learn Learning Loss Man Religion Religious Seeks Society

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Sociologist

Born: April 15th, 1858

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