Willard Gaylin Quotes

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.

People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

You're not on your own. You're doing things with other people. This is very important for me.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

I am because other people are.

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable ‘must’all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward community.

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.

If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.

This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.