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This quote is just one of 9 total Emile Durkheim quotes in our collection. Emile Durkheim is known for saying 'Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.' as well as some of the following quotes.
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.
This quote is just one of 9 total Emile Durkheim quotes in our collection. Emile Durkheim is known for saying 'Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.' as well as some of the following quotes.