"If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion."

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Source : Emile Durkheim (1973). “Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society”, p.191, University of Chicago Press

Emile Durkheim

#Ideas Quotes #Soul Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have”
“Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.”
“If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.”
“Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.”
“Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon”
“I don't regret what happened there.”
“Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.”
“Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.”

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