Quotes by Durkheim, Emile

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

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to >>

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having con >>

Quotations about Skepticism

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. >>

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense agai >>

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, W >>

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere.

Durkheim, Emile