• To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

    Emile Durkheim: To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
    John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.248, Simon and Schuster