Quotes by Durkheim, Emile

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses >>

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness witho >>

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world >>

Quotations about Luxury

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessarie >>

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or ch >>

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. >>

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.

Durkheim, Emile