For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.


The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (ed. Library of Alexandria, 2000) - ISBN: 9781465571571

Émile Durkheim Quotes

For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were...

For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were...

For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were...

For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were...