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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Condemn Definition Goal Oneself Perpetual Pursue State Unattainable Unhappiness Which

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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Abandoned Comparison Dreams Imaginations Reality Seems Therefore

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The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Art Because Built Cosmic Demands Environment Exhaustion Faith Itself Life Morality Nor Organic Organs Political Provide Religion Repair Roles Science Social Sound

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A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Attributed Autonomy Being Contact Distinguished Environment Immediately Merely Most Others Person Relation Relative Single Subject Which

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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.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Absorb Attracted Being Cannot Change Contemplation Does Emptiness Increasingly Infinity Long Name Nature Remain Vain Without

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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

Topics: Absurd Acts Clearly Correct Desire Drink Example Flaw For Example He Healthy His Language Mentality Other Perfectly Person Respects Sick Single Steal Strictly Thoughts Times Unreasonable Use Whose

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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.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Active Certainly Classes Intellectual Intellectual Life Knowledge Liberal Life Most Professions Sense Taste Those Wider

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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

Topics: Action Arranged Beliefs Categories Consist Determined First Fundamental Modes Naturally Opinion Phenomena Religious Rites Second States Two

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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

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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

Topics: Bright Cheerfulness Collective Fact Human Human Life Humor In Fact Incompetent Individual Life Lights Making Only Opinion Pass People Sadness See Society Somber Them Things Value Well

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Sociologist

Born: April 15th, 1858

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