“ Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities. Emile Durkheim Sociologist
“ It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand. Emile Durkheim Sociologist
“ Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. Emile Durkheim Sociologist
“ Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. Emile Durkheim Sociologist
“ There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Writer
“ Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. Simone Weil Philosopher
“ Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. Walter Savage Landor Writer
“ The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra! Will Self Author
“ Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong? Jeffrey Kluger Writer