Emile Durkheim :
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
#
Suicide
#
Science and Scientists
#
Love
Gift it
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=31026&author=Emile Durkheim"e=++Each+victim+of+suicide+gives+his+act+a+personal+stamp+which+expresses+his+temperament%2C+the+special+conditions+in+which+he+is+involved%2C+and+which%2C+consequently%2C+cannot+be+explained+by+the+social+and+general+causes+of+the+phenomenon.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2686%2FEmile+Durkheim_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=93525&author=Alfred Kinsey"e=The+mammalian+record+thus+confirms+our+statement+that+any+animal+which+is+not+too+strongly+conditioned+by+some+special+sort+of+experience+is+capable+of+responding+to+any+adequate+stimulus.+This+is+what+we+find+in+the+more+uninhibited+segments+of+our+human+species%2C+and+this+is+what+we+find+among+young+children+who+are+not+too+rigorously+restrained+in+their+early+sex+play.+Exclusive+preferences+and+patterns+of+behavior%2C+heterosexual+or+homosexual%2C+come+only+with+experience%2C+or+as+a+result+of+social+pressures+which+tend+to+force+an+individual+into+an+exclusive+pattern+of+one+or+the+other+sort.+Psychologists+and+psychiatrists%2C+reflecting+the+mores+of+the+culture+in+which+they+have+been+raised%2C+have+spent+a+good+deal+of+time+trying+explain+the+origins+of+homosexual+activity%3B+but+considering+the+physiology+of+sexual+response+and+the+mammalian+backgrounds+of+human+behavior%2C+it+is+not+so+difficult+to+explain+why+a+human+animal+does+a+particular+thing+sexually.+It+is+more+difficult+to+explain+why+each+and+every+individual+is+not+involved+in+every+type+of+sexual+activity.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F11681%2FAlfred_Kinsey_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=61487&author=Marva Collins"e=Trust+yourself.+Think+for+yourself.+Act+for+yourself.+Speak+for+yourself.+Be+yourself.+Imitation+is+suicide.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F5145%2FMarva+Collins_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=33799&author=Graham Greene"e=++However+great+a+man%27s+fear+of+life%2C+suicide+remains+the+courageous+act%2C+the+clear-headed+act+of+a+mathematician.+The+suicide+has+judged+by+the+laws+of+chance+--+so+many+odds+against+one+that+to+live+will+be+more+miserable+than+to+die.+His+sense+of+mathematics+is+greater+than+his+sense+of+survival.+But+think+how+a+sense+of+survival+must+clamor+to+be+heard+at+the+last+moment%2C+what+excuses+it+must+present+of+a+totally+unscientific+nature.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F1459%2FGraham_Greene_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=33812&author=Arthur Schopenhauer"e=++Suicide+may+also+be+regarded+as+an+experiment+--+a+question+which+man+puts+to+Nature%2C+trying+to+force+her+to+answer.+The+question+is+this%3A+What+change+will+death+produce+in+a+man%27s+existence+and+in+his+insight+into+the+nature+of+things%3F+It+is+a+clumsy+experiment+to+make%3B+for+it+involves+the+destruction+of+the+very+consciousness+which+puts+the+question+and+awaits+the+answer.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F398%2FArthur+Schopenhauer_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=105930&author=Wilhelm Reich"e=Work-democracy+adds+a+decisive+piece+of+knowledge+to+the+scope+of+ideas+related+to+freedom.+The+masses+of+people+who+work+and+bear+the+burden+of+social+existence+on+their+shoulders+neither+are+conscious+of+their+social+responsibility+nor+are+they+capable+of+assuming+the+responsibility+for+their+own+freedom.+This+is+the+result+of+the+century-long+suppression+of+rational+thinking%2C+the+natural+functions+of+love%2C+and+scientific+comprehension+of+the+living.+Everything+related+to+the+emotional+plague+in+social+life+can+be+traced+back+to+this+incapacity+and+lack+of+consciousness.+It+is+work-democracy%27s+contention+that%2C+by+its+very+nature%2C+politics+is+and+has+to+be+unscientific%2C+i.e.%2C+that+it+is+an+expression+of+human+helplessness%2C+poverty%2C+and+suppression.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F5085%2FWilhelm_Reich_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=73334&author=Eric Cantona"e=If+he%27s+got+a+temperament%2C+wait+until+he+sees+my+temperament.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F13552%2FEric+Cantona_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=34444&author=Gilbert K Chesterton"e=++Artistic+temperament+is+the+disease+that+afflicts+amateurs.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F279%2FGilbert+Keith_Chesterton_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=34443&author=Thomas Carlyle"e=++The+cut+of+a+garment+speaks+of+intellect+and+talent+and+the+color+of+temperament+and+heart.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F111%2FThomas+Carlyle_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=34446&author=Martin Luther"e=++Who+has+skill+in+the+art+of+music+is+of+good+temperament+and+fitted+for+all+things.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F1006%2FMartin_Luther_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=34442&author=John Burroughs"e=++Temperament+lies+behind+mood%3B+behind+will%2C+lies+the+fate+of+character.+Then+behind+both%2C+the+influence+of+family+the+tyranny+of+culture%3B+and+finally+the+power+of+climate+and+environment%3B+and+we+are+free%2C+only+to+the+extent+we+rise+above+these.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F1541%2FJohn_Burroughs_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=1938&author=Emile Durkheim"e=++The+wise+man%2C+knowing+how+to+enjoy+achieved+results+without+having+constantly+to+replace+them+with+others%2C+finds+in+them+an+attachment+to+life+in+the+hour+of+difficulty.+But+the+man+who+has+always+pinned+all+his+hopes+on+the+future+and+lived+with+his+eyes+fixed+upon+it%2C+has+nothing+in+the+past+as+a+comfort+against+the+present%27s+afflictions%2C+for+the+past+was+nothing+to+him+but+a+series+of+hastily+experienced+stages.+What+blinded+him+to+himself+was+his+expectation+always+to+find+further+on+the+happiness+he+had+so+far+missed.+Now+he+is+stopped+in+his+tracks%3B+from+now+on+nothing+remains+behind+or+ahead+of+him+to+fix+his+gaze+upon.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2686%2FEmile+Durkheim_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=9456&author=Emile Durkheim"e=++From+top+to+bottom+of+the+ladder%2C+greed+is+aroused+without+knowing+where+to+find+ultimate+foothold.+Nothing+can+calm+it%2C+since+its+goal+is+far+beyond+all+it+can+attain.+Reality+seems+valueless+by+comparison+with+the+dreams+of+fevered+imaginations%3B+reality+is+therefore+abandoned.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2686%2FEmile+Durkheim_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=29556&author=Emile Durkheim"e=++A+mind+that+questions+everything%2C+unless+strong+enough+to+bear+the+weight+of+its+ignorance%2C+risks+questioning+itself+and+being+engulfed+in+doubt.+If+it+cannot+discover+the+claims+to+existence+of+the+objects+of+its+questioning+--+and+it+would+be+miraculous+if+it+so+soon+succeeded+in+solving+so+many+mysteries+--+it+will+deny+them+all+reality%2C+the+mere+formulation+of+the+problem+already+implying+an+inclination+to+negative+solutions.+But+in+so+doing+it+will+become+void+of+all+positive+content+and%2C+finding+nothing+which+offers+it+resistance%2C+will+launch+itself+perforce+into+the+emptiness+of+inner+revere.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2686%2FEmile+Durkheim_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=22475&author=Emile Durkheim"e=++It+is+a+quite+remarkable+fact+that+the+great+religions+of+the+most+civilized+peoples+are+more+deeply+fraught+with+sadness+than+the+simpler+beliefs+of+earlier+societies.+This+certainly+does+not+mean+that+the+current+of+pessimism+is+eventually+to+submerge+the+other%2C+but+it+proves+that+it+does+not+lose+ground+and+that+it+does+not+seem+destined+to+disappear.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2686%2FEmile+Durkheim_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=12933&author=Emile Durkheim"e=++The+man+whose+whole+activity+is+diverted+to+inner+meditation+becomes+insensible+to+all+his+surroundings.+If+he+loves%2C+it+is+not+to+give+himself%2C+to+blend+in+fecund+union+with+another+being%2C+but+to+meditate+on+his+love.+His+passions+are+mere+appearances%2C+being+sterile.+They+are+dissipated+in+futile+imaginings%2C+producing+nothing+external+to+themselves.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2686%2FEmile+Durkheim_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=17341&author=Emile Durkheim"e=++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.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2686%2FEmile+Durkheim_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=21168&author=Emile Durkheim"e=++Too+cheerful+a+morality+is+a+loose+morality%3B+it+is+appropriate+only+to+decadent+peoples+and+is+found+only+among+them.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2686%2FEmile+Durkheim_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=28020&author=Emile Durkheim"e=++Man+could+not+live+if+he+were+entirely+impervious+to+sadness.+Many+sorrows+can+be+endured+only+by+being+embraced%2C+and+the+pleasure+taken+in+them+naturally+has+a+somewhat+melancholy+character.+So%2C+melancholy+is+morbid+only+when+it+occupies+too+much+place+in+life%3B+but+it+is+equally+morbid+for+it+to+be+wholly+excluded+from+life.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2686%2FEmile+Durkheim_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=29791&author=Emile Durkheim"e=++Man%27s+characteristic+privilege+is+that+the+bond+he+accepts+is+not+physical+but+moral%3B+that+is%2C+social.+He+is+governed+not+by+a+material+environment+brutally+imposed+on+him%2C+but+by+a+conscience+superior+to+his+own%2C+the+superiority+of+which+he+feels.+Because+the+greater%2C+better+part+of+his+existence+transcends+the+body%2C+he+escapes+the+body%27s+yoke%2C+but+is+subject+to+that+of+society.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2686%2FEmile+Durkheim_64x64.png){kind=link}