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....

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

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

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

The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion....

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