Quote by Emile Durkheim
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the w

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

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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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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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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. – Dorothea Brande

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, its the most comical thing in the world. – Samuel Beckett

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Mans unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. – Thomas Carlyle

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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. – Aesop, “The Man and His Two Wives,” Fables

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