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Emile Durkheim: 'Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.'

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Emile Durkheim: 'It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.'

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Emile Durkheim: 'It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.'

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Emile Durkheim: 'Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.'

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Emile Durkheim: 'To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.'

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Emile Durkheim: 'Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.'

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Emile Durkheim: 'If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.'

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Emile Durkheim: 'Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.'

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Emile Durkheim: 'There are two types of men: the great and the small.'

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Emile Durkheim: 'Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.'

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Voltaire: 'Better is the enemy of good.'

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Voltaire: 'God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.'

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Voltaire: 'When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.'

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Voltaire: 'Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.'

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Voltaire: 'It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.'

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Voltaire: 'It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.'

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Voltaire: 'Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.'

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Voltaire: 'It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.'

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Voltaire: 'Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.'

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Voltaire: 'I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.'

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