Best quotes by Emile Durkheim on Life

Checkout quotes by Emile Durkheim on Life

  • 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.
    - Emile Durkheim
  • 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.
    - Emile Durkheim
  • There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
    - Emile Durkheim
  • 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.
    - Emile Durkheim
  • The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.
    - Emile Durkheim