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We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
Man has been adjudged a social animal.
And Dunbar points out that in our ultrasocial species, success is largely a matter of playing the social game well. It's not what you know, it's who you know.
introducing market norms into social exchanges, as we have seen, violates the social norms and hurts the relationships. Once this type of mistake has been committed, recovering a social relationship is difficult.
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.
Is socializing all that great? Riots are socializing. Arguably, more damage is done and time wasted in company with others than alone.
People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
They had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance.
The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
I create my social existence by earning and spending.
Social stability comes at the price of wearing a mask, of learning to distance ourselves from our unique nature, from our personal desires, needs, and feelings; instead, we embrace a socially acceptable self.
Man is more social within than without.
Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.
The happiest people in America socialize about seven hours a day,
We live with mutual thought processes in relationships; less with the physical attractions, less with the fame, less with the social status, and less with any sort of materialistic attributes.
Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness ...
Page 33 "Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm very antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this.
People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.
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.
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.
A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth
Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain.
Popular people, well, they're just the best liars.
Language is a social event.
Humans are social animals. They cluster like bees.
As for being sociable, I hate the phoniness in the showbiz world. I know this will be taken wrong, but I don't like clubs and organizations. I was never a joiner.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it?
In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.
Friendship humanizes.
Surrounding yourself with others ...
I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.
Whether they be old or young, rich or poor, high or low, wise or foolish, ignorant or learned, every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved and respected ... a passion for distinction.
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms
I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.
'Tis social converse, animates the soul.
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.
The outlaw, the revolutionary, the cabbalist or member of a secret society, indeed heretics of all kinds are of a highly associative if not sociable disposition, and a certain element of play is prominent in all their doings.
Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.
Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not.
Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.
I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going on inside my head.
Happiness is promoted by associations of persons with similar tastes and similar opinions.
with honesty there came communication,
Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.
When Communication with others is from love to love ... it is deeply satisfying and healthy.
We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.
I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.
Amiability shines by its own light.
Knowledge and wisdom comes from interaction-- not from inaction.
It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but that seems to be how I go about my days: peaceably in person, fiercely on paper.
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct it. How, for instance, can one compare a socialized post office with private postal delivery when the latter has been outlawed?
Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
Solitude is sometimes the best society.
When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.
Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created.
Discover the fulfillment of intimate relationships with flesh-and-blood neighbors and teammates in concrete place and time, and we escape the pressure of mainstream media to channel intimacy only as virtual embrace.
I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies - in great towns and great crowds. It's a plant that takes time and space and air; and London society is a huge "squash", as we elegantly call it - an elbowing, pushing, perspiring, chattering mob.
Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it ... there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst.
You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.
Solitude is sometimes best society.
It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestions, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.
In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation.
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.
Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.
Truth is communal.
A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.
...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group
Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.
From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths
I go through the motions of living in society
Social man lives always outside himself; he knows how to live only in the opinion of others, it is, so to speak, from their judgement alone that he derives the sense of his own existence.
A lot of our lives are about being polite.
In my neighborhood, gossip is a competitive sport that's been raised to Olympic standard, and I never diss gossip; I revere it with all my heart.
Solitude sometimes is best society.
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.
Communication, communication.
In the educated class even social life is a series of aptitude tests; we all must perpetually perform in accordance with the shifting norms of propriety, ever advancing signals of cultivation.
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.
I surround myself with people who make positive decisions ... My friends and I look out for each other.
I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.
Courtesy is the universal social lubricant.
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.