At First Sight, One Does

The First And Most Basic Rule Is To Consider Social Facts As Things.

Religious Representations Are Collective Representations Which Express Collective Realities.

At First Sight, One Does Not See What Relations There Can Be Between Religion And Logic.

To Pursue A Goal Which Is By Definition Unattainable Is To Condemn Oneself To A State Of Perpetual Unhappiness.

Society Is Not A Mere Sum Of Individuals. Rather, The System Formed By Their Association Represents A Specific Reality Which Has Its Own Characteristics... The Group Thinks, Feels, And Acts Quite Differently From The Way In Which Its Members Would Were They Isolated. If, Then, We Begin With The Individual, We Shall Be Able To Understand Nothing Of What Takes Place In The Group.