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

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

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Suicide
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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. – Emile Durkheim

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Sadness
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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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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure. – Elbert Hubbard

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Optimism

Optimists are nostalgic about the future. – Chicago Tribune

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Optimism

Optimist: “Okay, we all realize that the situation is temporarily hopeless.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Optimism

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

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Optimism

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There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. – Andrew Carnegie

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They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons. – Douglas Feith

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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. – Maimonides

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