--- title: "3 Group Life Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 3 Group Life quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Group Life sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22d/willa-cather-634_day-by-day_one-realizes-that-even-in-harmonious-fam_1002690.jpg" --- > [“One realizes that even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/one-realizes-that-even-in-harmonious-families-there-is-this-double/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22d/willa-cather-634_day-by-day_one-realizes-that-even-in-harmonious-fam_1002690.jpg) > [Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/vermont-tradition-is-based-on-the-idea-that-group-life-should-leave/) [Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc8/dorothy-canfield-fisher-13429_below-the-surface_vermont-tradition-is-based-on-the-idea-t_1246573.jpg) > [“Their attitude toward another aspect of organization shows the same bias. What of the "group life", the loss of individualism? Once upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-h-whyte/their-attitude-toward-another-aspect-of-organization-shows-the-same/) [William H. Whyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-h-whyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ef/william-h-whyte-27508_human-relations_their-attitude-toward-another-aspect-of_2847480.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/group-life/#itemlist", "name": "Group Life Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“One realizes that even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbour’s household, and, underneath, another – secret and passionate and intense – which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him. One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. 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