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

Other quotes by Emile Durkheim

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

Category:
State
Read Quote

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. – Emile Durkheim

Category:
Suicide
Read Quote

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. – Emile Durkheim

Category:
Sadness
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Optimism
category

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

Category:
Optimism

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. – James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

Category:
Optimism

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Optimism

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. – Helen Rowland

Category:
Optimism

Random Quotes

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival. – Noam Chomsky

Category:
Freedom

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everythings dark, dingy – what a great time for a movie! – John Hughes

Category:
Christmas

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs. – Abraham Meyerson

Category:
Humankind

We have no proof, but if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that … other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places… – Neil Armstrong

Category:
Space