“Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.” MindWholeSeemsForceSocialEnvironmentFilledSocial Environment Author:Emile Durkheim
“This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality... Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscience completely envelops our whole conscience and coincides in all points with it... when this solidarity exercises its force, our personality vanishes, as our definition permits us to say, for we are no longer ourselves, but the collective life.” WholeForceGrowsPersonalityExerciseConscienceDefinitionsCollectivesPermitSolidarityMaximumRatiosInverse Author:Emile Durkheim
“At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?” IfsHumansWholeCharacterLawHuman BeingsMoralDutyDegreesLaborContraryAriseSufficientLatterDivisionOrgansOrganismsUrgentLaws Of NatureThoroughDivision Of LaborParts Of A Whole Author:Emile Durkheim
“What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices of inspired prophets. The reason is that all change, in colliding with the inherited institutions of the past, is inevitably hard and laborious; consequently it only takes place in response to the demands of necessity. For change to be brought about it is not enough that it should be seen as desirable; it must be the product of changes within the whole network of diverse casual relationships which then determine the situation of man.” MenShouldDoeHardReasonEnoughWholePastVoiceSituationTeachProductsDemandInstitutionsResponseInspiredDetermineHearingProphetDiverseDesirableCasualCasual Relationships Author:Emile Durkheim
“The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.” MenWholeMeditationHe ManActivityIntrospectionSurroundingsInsensible Book:Suicide Source: Suicide
“The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.” MenWholePassionMeditationHe ManActivityMereAppearanceIntrospectionSurroundingsInsensible Book:Suicide Source: Suicide
“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.” WorldDoeWholeSadnessProductsSorrowSadMereContemplationJoys And SorrowsSadness Of LifeSadness And Sorrow Author:Emile Durkheim
