Quotes About Collective

There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

There is no "I", there's only "we". Meaning all you can touch, and all that you see is a part of you, and a part of me.

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Religious beliefs and practices are certainly not the only factors determining the behaviour of a given society. But, no less certainly, they are among the determining factors. At least to some extent, the collective conduct of a nation is a test of the religion prevailing within it, a criterion by which we may legitimately judge the doctrinal validity of that religion and its practical efficiency in helping individuals to advance towards the goal of human existence.

Meaningless pseudoknowledge has at all times been one of the principal motivators of individual and collective action. And that is one of the reasons why the course of human history has been so tragic and at the same time so strangely grotesque.

It is not good in itself; it is good only to the extent that it promotes the good of the individuals who are the parts of the collective whole. To give organizations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means.

A man consists of what I may call an Old World of personal consciousness and, beyond a dividing sea, a series of New Worlds - the not too distant Virginias and Carolinas of the personal sub-subconscious and the vegetative soul; the Far West of the collective unconscious, with its flora of symbols, its tribes of aboriginal archetypes; and, across another, vaster ocean, at the antipodes of everyday consciousness, the world of Visionary Experience.

existen creencias colectivas por así decir asintomáticas: brotan y se propagan utilizando la conciencia individual como incubadora inconsciente y permanecen sustancialmente ilegibles hasta el momento en que emergen con la rapidez de una pandemia

Enmeshed in collective hatred and anger, each side proclaims the crimes of the other and its own righteousness, is unable to listen to the others suffering, and cannot look at the deeper roots of the conflict and how we often need our enemies in order to maintain our rigid identities. (p. 53)

The marketplace is an institution that teaches self-advancement, private acquisition, and the domination of nature. Its way of thinking is incompatible with the round river. Ecological harmony is a nonmarket value that takes a collective will to achieve.

having to sort of pretend – collectively – that it is in fact true.

Without socially positive opportunities to exercise our autonomy, we tend toward self-promotion over self-sacrifice and fixate on personal gain over collective prosperity.

The net turned media back into a collective, participatory, and social landscape. But, as seemingly happens to each and every new medium, the net went from being a social platform to an isolating one. Instead of forging new relationships between people, our digital technologies came to replace them with something else.

Quizá parte de lo anterior explique lo que se ha dado en llamar "espíritu colectivo".

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

Common sense, in other words, depends on what the sociologist Harry Collins calls collective tacit knowledge, meaning that it is encoded in the social norms, customs, and practices of the world.10

If the first type of commonsense error is that our mental model of individual behavior is systematically flawed, the second type is that our mental model of collective behavior is even worse.