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.


Suicide: A Study in Sociology (1897), trans. J. A. Spaulding and G. Simpson (1952)

Émile Durkheim Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...