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Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
— Emile Durkheim
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
— Emile Durkheim
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
— Emile Durkheim
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
— Emile Durkheim
When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
— Emile Durkheim
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
— Emile Durkheim
It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political and moral beliefs that control our actions.
— Emile Durkheim
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
— Emile Durkheim
One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.
— Emile Durkheim
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
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
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
— Emile Durkheim
There are two types of men: the great and the small.
— Emile Durkheim
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
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
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
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
— Emile Durkheim
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
We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
— Emile Durkheim
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
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
— Emile Durkheim
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
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
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
— Emile Durkheim
At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
— Emile Durkheim
Social man...is the masterpiece of existence.
— Emile Durkheim
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
Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.
— Emile Durkheim
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
— Emile Durkheim
...Solidarity is, literally something which the society possesses.
— Emile Durkheim
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
— Emile Durkheim