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

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• Emile Durkheim:

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

• Emile Durkheim:

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

• Emile Durkheim:

  Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The fi

• Emile Durkheim:

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

• Emile Durkheim:

  That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their re

• Emile Durkheim:

  A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being

• Emile Durkheim:

  By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a

• Emile Durkheim:

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

• Emile Durkheim:

  A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has

• Emile Durkheim:

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