It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.


'The Dualism of Human Nature and its Social Conditions' (1914), trans. Charles Blend, in Kurt H. Wolff (ed.), Emile Durkheim, 1858–1917 (1960)

Émile Durkheim Quotes

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.