Author: Emile Durkheim

Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

- Emile Durkheim

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.

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

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

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

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