Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Emile DurkheimIrrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
Emile DurkheimA social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations.
Emile Durkheim