Quotes by Durkheim, Emile

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

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the wei >>

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality i >>

Quotations about Contemplation

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to co >>

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less fro >>

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and inv >>

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

Durkheim, Emile