Logo
Quote by Emile Durkheim
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing

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

Other quotes by Emile Durkheim

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
Author
Emile Durkheim
Read Quote

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

Category:
Optimism
Author
Emile Durkheim
Read Quote

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
Author
Emile Durkheim
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Greed
category

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. – John Maynard Keynes

Category:
Greed

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

Category:
Greed

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. – Matthew Green

Category:
Greed

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Category:
Greed

Random Quotes

It aint often that a mans reputation outlasts his money. – Josh Billings

Category:
Money

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didnt want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite. – Bill Pullman

Category:
Romantic

Aunt Betsey made a bad bargain when she exchanged her girlish aspirations for a man whose soul was in his pocket. – Louisa May Alcott, “Christie,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

Category:
Money

Im pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I dont have is something like the iPod – but PC-based. I think that would be cool. – Oren Peli

Category:
cool