Emile Durkheim Quotes

That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.

Emile Durkheim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: April 15, 1858 - November 15, 1917

Topics

ReflectionMenWorldEarlyAdmit

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

MusicArtPoetryMindPainting

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

Robert Cormier

StreetNeedRightHereStoriesMain

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Ludwig van Beethoven

MusicSoulMeMy SoulYearEarly

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.

Donna Leon

MeWritingBookSomeoneMysterySee

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

David Sedaris

FamilyOffendedEverythingCheck

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

Chris Bosh

BusinessPeopleKnowSayWantNever

Once you're president, there's blood on your hands - there's no way around it.

Brian Azzarello

HandsYouBloodWayPresidentYour

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.

Anne Perry

PathTimeI AmWorryEasyWrong

Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.

Anthony Foxx

SuccessPeopleMoreRevenueFreight

If you watch the scroll at the very start of 'A New Hope,' you'll see plenty of references to the story we tell in 'Rogue One.' And I play a rebel General.

Alistair Petrie

HopeStartStoryYouRebelPlay

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.

Arthur Smith

PassionNowHillsBritishBeenFour

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

William Lyon Phelps

RainWorldOutWetGetWould

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