Quotes by : Emile Durkheim

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable....

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of....

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

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is....

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making....

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he....

The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally....

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest....

The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian.....

A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred....