Community Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of…

— Anonymous

“Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to social interaction.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time…

— Wilfrid Laurier

I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people…

— Alan Licht

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

— Lev S. Vygotsky

There's always selfish behavior. There are lots of examples of people hoarding. But we've seen in this pandemic that the vast majority of behavior…

— Rutger Bregman

“For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.”

— Augustine of Hippo

“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what traits were…

— Nicholas Wade

Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or…

— Jean Liedloff

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

— Paul Valery

Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term--the antithesis.…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

— Jonathan Haidt

On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But our social…

— Frances Moore Lappé

We scientists have way too much a tendency to simplify problems. I guess it actually comes to us naturally. Take the simplest unit, separate…

— Jonathan Haidt