Emile Durkheim — "The more primitive a society, the more sacred are its collective representations…"
The more primitive a society, the more sacred are its collective representations.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Emile Durkheim
"The first rule of sociology is to treat social facts as things."
"Religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community all th…"
"Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss."
"Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain."
"Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too sa…"