Quotes by Durkheim, Emile

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes i >>

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing whe >>

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is mos >>

Quotations about Pessimism

A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses b >>

No good deed goes unpunished. >>

I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist. >>

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

Durkheim, Emile