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An Act Cannot Be Defined By The End Sought By The Actor, For An Identical System Of Behaviour May Be Adjustable To Too Many Different Ends Without Altering Its Nature.

Sociological Method As We Practice It Rests Wholly On The Basic Principle That Social Facts Must Be Studied As Things, That Is, As Realities External To The Individual. There Is No Principle For Which We Have Received More Criticism; But None Is More Fundamental. Indubitably For Sociology To Be Possible, It Must Above All Have An Object All Its Own. It Must Take Cognizance Of A Reality Which Is Not In The Domain Of Other Sciences... There Can Be No Sociology Unless Societies Exist, And That Societies Cannot Exist If There Are Only Individuals.

When Morals Are Sufficient, Law Is Unnecessary; When Morals Are Insufficient, Law Is Unenforceable.

One Does Not Advance When One Walks Toward No Goal, Or - Which Is The Same Thing - When His Goal Is Infinity.

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.