Quote of Oscar Wilde - Society exists only as a mental...
Biography - Oscar Wilde:
Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
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Quotes for: concept
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals.
Quotes about the world:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Quotes for: society
Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.
Article XV – The society has the right of requesting account from any public agent of its administration.
Article XVI – Any society in which the guarantee of rights is not assured, nor the separation of powers determined, has no Constitution.
Quotes for: Individual
Article III – The principle of any sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation. No body, no individual can exert authority which does not emanate expressly from it.
when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men.
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
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