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Topic·Man as social animal✕clear

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Peter Kropotkin

1902

★ 0.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

931 BC

★ 1.2

No man is wise enough by himself.

184 BC

★ 1.3

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

1931

★ 1.8

Philosophical literature

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621

★ 1.9

The social, friendly, honest man, Whate'er he be, 'Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan, An' none but he!

1785

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are his sensations... His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have thus adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments · 1759

★ 2.0

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Phoenix · 400 BC

★ 2.1

Political literature · Economic literature

Society does not consist of individuals; it expresses the sum of connections and relationships in which individuals find themselves.

Grundrisse · 1883

★ 2.1

Political literature · Philosophical literature

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must either be a beast or a god.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 2.3

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone about him.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.3

Play · Drama (play) · Drama

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.

1945

★ 3.4

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

1955

★ 3.5

Paper · Travel writing

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1872

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

1933

★ 3.5

Essay · Food writing

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

1949

★ 3.5

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

1916

★ 3.6

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.

Wallace Stegner

All the Little Live Things · 1967

★ 3.6

To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end?

1997

★ 3.6

Song · Rock music

I know things can really get rough when you go it alone. Don’t go thinking you gotta be tough and bleed like a stone.

Simple Song · 2012

★ 3.6

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