Social Being Quotes

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

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

Man is ... a political animal.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

I am a political animal.

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

You can't be human alone.

From the moment I came out of the womb, I have been a political animal.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

Homo sapiens is a social being, and our well-being depends to a large extent on the quality and depth of our social and family relations - and in the last 200 years, they have been disintegrating.

This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.