Collective Life Quotes

Man is ... a political animal.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

There exists only one single German way of life. It is that which is rooted in the enduring core of the people and in a way of work freely offered to the will of the State, a way whose enrichment is being shaped in the National Socialist Revolution.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and irrational.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

The general idea of history seems to be that it is the biography of a society…. History is to the common life of many what biography is to an individual.

Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give.

The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal. Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.