Quote by Emile Durkheim
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate onl

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim

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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. – Emile Durkheim

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State
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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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Dreams
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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum. – Havelock Ellis

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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. – Ambrose Bierce

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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. – Ring Lardner

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An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. – Ambrose Bierce

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