Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
Emile DurkheimReality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Emile DurkheimSadness 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