Quotes · Skopia

35 quotes

Ethics · 1677

★ 7.1

No man is an Island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes · 1624

★ 6.9

Letter

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

Groucho Marx

1949

★ 6.9

Novel

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 5.2

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness: the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

David Whyte

2020

★ 5.0

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

Mankind have been created for the sake of one another.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 4.0

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

Everybody needs a co-pilot.

Ryan Bingham

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 3.9

Fragment

This is living, not to live unto oneself alone.

Menander

290 BC

★ 3.8

Treatise · Legal writing

Man was formed for society.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1765

★ 3.8

Novel

No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody fucking chance.

Ernest Hemingway

To Have and Have Not · 1937

★ 3.8

Film · Superhero (film) · Crime drama (film) · Superhero · Crime drama

Can't rely on anyone these days, you have to do everything yourself, don't we.

The Joker

The Dark Knight · 2008

★ 3.8

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who hate me must be suffering from some strange form of lunacy.

Sei Shonagon

1002

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

Adam Smith

The Theory of Moral Sentiments · 1759

★ 3.7

The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that...he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body.

John Stuart Mill

Utiliarianism · 1861

★ 3.7

TV program · Fantasy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Fantasy · Drama

When the snows fall, and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.

Sansa Stark

Game of Thrones · 2017

★ 3.7

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

Rabindranath Tagore

1916

★ 3.6

Novel

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

Wallace Stegner

All the Little Live Things · 1967

★ 3.6

Novel

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

Carol Shields

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.

The Shins

Simple Song · 2012

★ 3.6

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.

Carl Jung

1933

★ 3.5

Essay · Food writing

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

M.F.K. Fisher

1949

★ 3.5

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

Eric Hoffer

1955

★ 3.5

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.

J.B. Priestley

1945

★ 3.4

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.

Aristotle

Politics · 350 BC

★ 2.3

Novel

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

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.3

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

Euripides

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.

Karl Marx

Grundrisse · 1883

★ 2.1

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.

Adam Smith

The Theory of Moral Sentiments · 1759

★ 2.0

Philosophical literature

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621

★ 1.9

Poem

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

Robert Burns

1785

★ 1.9

Speech

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.

Learned Hand

1931

★ 1.8

Play

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

184 BC

★ 1.3

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

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

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