Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
Emile DurkheimA society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.
Emile DurkheimSocial 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 Durkheim