Gabriel Tarde Quotes on Nature
Jean-Gabriel de Tarde was a French sociologist, criminologist, and social philosopher, and the chief rival of Emile Durkheim in the foundation of French sociology. This page collects quotes attributed to Gabriel Tarde on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Gabriel Tarde:
“Society is imitation, and imitation is a kind of somnambulism.”
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Attributed to Gabriel Tarde:
“Every social phenomenon is the product of imitation, opposition, or adaptation.”
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“Life in a world centred on function is liable to dispair because in reality the world is empty, it rings hollow; and if it resist this temptation it is only to the extent that there comes into plat from within it and in its favour certain hidden forces which are beyond its power to conceive or to recognise.”
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“the world we live in permits - and may even seem to counsel - absolute dispair, yet it is only such a world that can give rise to an unconquerable hope.”
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