Collective Existence Quotes

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

No man is an island unto himself.

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

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

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.

These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to the pain of those who suffer: they are my pains. For I cannot be without existing for all, for all who are silent and oppressed, I come from the people and I sing for them: my poetry is song and punnishment.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

We're social animals; we're meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don't think.