“ A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning — and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries — it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions… ”
- Emile Durkheim- Copy
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“ If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income… ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
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