Emile Durkheim Reality Quotations
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- Ayn Rand
- Albert Einstein
- Deepak Chopra
- C S Lewis
- Terence Mckenna
- Haruki Murakami
- Marcel Proust
- Rajneesh
- Eckhart Tolle
- Dalai Lama
- Thomas Merton
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Robert Anton Wilson
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- William James
- Alan Watts
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Aldous Huxley
- Byron Katie
- Anthony De Mello
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Practice Quotes
Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.
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Thinking Quotes
Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group.