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The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods.

~Emile Durkheim

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Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.

~Emile Durkheim

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It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.

~Emile Durkheim

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From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a system of representations; in either case, he differs only in degree from animals.

~Emile Durkheim

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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.

~Emile Durkheim

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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.

~Emile Durkheim

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It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

~Emile Durkheim

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Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

~Emile Durkheim

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Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

~Emile Durkheim

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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.

~Emile Durkheim

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Sociologist

Born: April 15th, 1858

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