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Quotes from Suicide: A Study in Sociology — Émile Durkheim

1858–1917 France

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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is too condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

Suicide: A Study in Sociology (1897)

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.

Suicide: A Study in Sociology (1897)

It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Suicide: A Study in Sociology (1897)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Émile Durkheim (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.