Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.
Emile DurkheimMelancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.
Emile DurkheimOur whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
Emile DurkheimThis solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality... 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... 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.
Emile Durkheim