Emile Durkheim quotes Born: 04/15/1858 Died: 11/15/1917 Country: france

• From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. (Emile Durkheim) [top/greed/find/calm]
• 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) [comfort/life/time]
• The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves. (Emile Durkheim) [activity/meditation/give/being]
• It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear. (Emile Durkheim) [more/sadness/beliefs]
• Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. (Emile Durkheim) [/]
• Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life. (Emile Durkheim) [sadness/being/pleasure/melancholy]
• A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere. (Emile Durkheim) [mind//ignorance/being]
• Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. (Emile Durkheim) [suicide/phenomenon]
• While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. (Emile Durkheim) [state/order]
• Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. (Emile Durkheim) [sadness/reach/product]
• There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it. (Emile Durkheim) [society/more/people/]
• 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)
• Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. (Emile Durkheim)
• Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. (Emile Durkheim)
• Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. (Emile Durkheim)

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