Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Émile Durkheim
- 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.
- The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.
- Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
- From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a system of representations; in either case, he differs only in degree from animals.
- Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.
- Whoever makes an attempt on a man’s life, on a man’s liberty, on a man’s honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.
- Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
- Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
- The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.
- By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.
Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) was a pioneering French sociologist known for his significant contributions to the field of sociology. He is often referred to as the “father of sociology” and was a key figure in the establishment of sociology as an academic discipline.
Born in Épinal, France, Durkheim was heavily influenced by the social and political upheavals of his time, including the industrial revolution and the rise of positivist thought. He believed that society could be studied scientifically and sought to understand social phenomena through empirical research and systematic analysis.
Durkheim’s major works include “The Division of Labor in Society” (1893), where he examined the effects of division of labor on social cohesion, and “Suicide: A Study in Sociology” (1897), which explored the social causes of suicide. He also emphasized the importance of social integration and the role of religion in maintaining social order in works like “The Elementary Forms of Religious Life” (1912).
His work laid the foundation for functionalist theory, which focuses on how different parts of society contribute to its stability and functioning. Durkheim’s ideas have had a lasting impact on the study of social phenomena and continue to influence sociological thought and research to this day.
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