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Emile Durkheim quotes: Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

Emile Durkheim quotes: When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

Emile Durkheim quotes: The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

Emile Durkheim quotes: When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Emile Durkheim quotes: When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

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

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

Emile Durkheim quotes: It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political and moral beliefs that control our actions.

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political and moral beliefs that control our actions.

Emile Durkheim quotes: Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Emile Durkheim quotes: One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

Emile Durkheim quotes: It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

Emile Durkheim quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

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

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

Emile Durkheim quotes: The most barbarous and the most fantastic rites and the strangest myths translate some human need, some aspect of life, either individual or social.

The most barbarous and the most fantastic rites and the strangest myths translate some human need, some aspect of life, either individual or social.

Emile Durkheim quotes: A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Emile Durkheim quotes: It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.

It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.

Emile Durkheim quotes: Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

Emile Durkheim quotes: Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

Emile Durkheim quotes: We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: Hence we are the victims of an illusion which leads us to believe we have ourselves produced what has been imposed upon us externally.

Hence we are the victims of an illusion which leads us to believe we have ourselves produced what has been imposed upon us externally.

Emile Durkheim quotes: There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

Emile Durkheim quotes: At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

Emile Durkheim quotes: Social man...is the masterpiece of existence.

Social man...is the masterpiece of existence.

Emile Durkheim quotes: Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

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 quotes: Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

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

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

Emile Durkheim quotes: ...Solidarity is, literally something which the society possesses.

...Solidarity is, literally something which the society possesses.

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

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

Emile Durkheim quotes: Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

Emile Durkheim quotes: Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

Emile Durkheim quotes: The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.

The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.

Emile Durkheim quotes: 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.

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.