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Quotes About Collective

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
~ Willard Libby
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
~ Konrad Lorenz
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
~ Herbert Spencer
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.
~ Émile Durkheim
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
~ John Dewey
Un Estado es "social" cuando promueve el principio, comunitariamente respaldado, de prevención colectiva como protección contra los infortunios individuales y sus consecuencias.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Taste, we assume, is innate, reflexive, immediate, involuntary, but we also speak of it as something to be acquired. It is a private, subjective matter, a badge of individual sovereignty, but at the same time a collectively held property, bundling us into clubs, cults, communities, and sociological stereotypes.
~ A.O. Scott
No one single person needs to be a genius or a visionary or even a great artist for the result to be permanent and to transcend generations. In the same way, the clubs we make are collectively smarter than the people we are. Reason, like musicals, emerges from the meeting of many minds.
~ Adam Gopnik
We gaan in op reusachtige, ongrijpbare collectieve projecten, zodat we ons afvragen wat we vorig jaar deden, sterker nog, waar wij zijn gebleven en wat er van ons geworden is. We zien onze verspilde krachten onder ogen tijdens het pathos van een pensioneringsfeestje.
~ Alain de Botton
In denying the natural place reserved for longing and error in the human lot, the bourgeois ideology denies us the possibility of collective consolation for our fractious marriages and our unexploited ambitions, and condemns us instead to solitary feelings or shame and persecution for having stubbornly failed to become who we are.
~ Alain de Botton
we are collectively unsure of what the point of private wealth really
~ Alain de Botton
Tekka shrugged—an old man's shrug, slow and full of meaning. "I've traveled too far and seen too much to ignore the collective anguish that threatens to drown the galaxy in a flood of dark despair. Something must be done; whatever the cost, whatever the danger. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side.
~ Alan Dean Foster
In the five hundred years that followed, a group of texts collectively known as the Dharma-shastras came where dharma was equated with social obligations
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
You know what's so cool about gaming? The whole collective consciousness thing! Like when you tap into your own knight in shinning armor, you're tapping into all knights in shinning armor. All these archetypes, you know, are we're all of them, and you have to learn to honour and acknowledge them inside you." "Plus, you get to be people you're not." "Um. True. And people you are.
~ Devin Grayson
People became so involved in their personalities, and their day-to-day living and goings-in and goings-out, that they began to pull away from the collective. Pull away from the source. Pull away from that which is. To become separate from All That Is, and to become individualized. And so as an individual person or being, they chose separation from source. And with the separation from source, then they began to forget to use the thought. And so then they began to find other ways.
~ Dolores Cannon
People became so involved in their personalities, and their day-to-day living and goings-in and goings-out, that they began to pull away from the collective. Pull away from the source. Pull away from that which is. To become separate from All That Is, and to become individualized. And so as an individual person or being, they chose separation from source. And with the separation from source, then they began to forget to use the thought.
~ Dolores Cannon
The future belongs to crowds.
~ Don DeLillo
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
~ Auguste Comte
Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.
~ Lisa Hunt
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
~ Anais Nin
In death the many become one; in life the one become many.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
~ Jeremy Bentham
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
~ Jerry Saltz