“ Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned. Emile Durkheim
“ 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
“ 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
“ It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand. 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
“ 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 disturba… Emile Durkheim
“ 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
“ 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… Emile Durkheim
“ 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 expa… Emile Durkheim
“ 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… 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
“ 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 opinio… Emile Durkheim
“ It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present. Emile Durkheim
“ When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. 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
“ Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc. Emile Durkheim
“ We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it. Emile Durkheim
“ When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random Emile Durkheim
