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Quotes from The Division of Labor in Society — Émile Durkheim

1858–1917 France

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Methodological rules are for science what rules of law and custom are for conduct.

The Division of Labor in Society (1893)

Solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality.

The Division of Labor in Society (1893)

Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscience completely envelops our whole conscience and coincides in all points with it.

The Division of Labor in Society (1893)

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

The Division of Labor in Society (1893)

At the moment when this solidarity exercises its force, our personality vanishes, as our definition permits us to say, for we are no longer ourselves, but the collective life.

The Division of Labor in Society (1893)

Every society is a moral society. In certain respects, this character is even more pronounced in organised societies. Because the individual is not sufficient unto himself, it is from society that he receives everything necessary to him, as it is for society that he works.

The Division of Labor in Society (1893)

Everybody knows that we like those who resemble us, those who think and feel as we do. But the opposite is no less true. It very often happens that we feel kindly towards those who do not resemble us, precisely because of this lack of resemblance.

The Division of Labor in Society (1893)

Attribution

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