Theme

Philosophy quotes about community

Community appears in this archive as a live philosophical concern—not a slogan. These verified English passages show how thinkers treat community as a problem of judgment, practice, or explanation.

Why this theme matters

Across 4 recurring voices here (notably Aristotle and Kwasi Wiredu), community is framed through Africana Philosophy and Peripatetic School. Some passages define community; others warn how it fails; still others relocate it inside habit, community, or language.

In the history of philosophy

Discussions of community travel through Greek and Africana traditions. Compare the quotations below with their school labels rather than forcing a single definition.

Thinkers in this collection

Aristotle , Marcus Aurelius , Augustine of Hippo , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Alfred North Whitehead , Cicero , Simone Weil , Philippa Foot

Frequently asked questions

What did philosophers say about community?

They disagreed in productive ways. In this archive, Aristotle, Kwasi Wiredu, and related voices treat community as something to clarify, cultivate, or critique—not merely to celebrate.

Where can I find philosophy quotes about community?

This theme page gathers 13 verified English quotations tagged Community, with links to thinkers and sources.

How should I read quotes about community?

Read the sentence, then check school and source. A compact line is an entry point into an argument about community, not a substitute for the surrounding text.

  1. Man is by nature a political animal.
  2. What is not good for the hive is not good for the bee.
  3. It is perhaps also strange to make the happy person a solitary.
  4. Two loves have made two cities.
  5. To find a form of association…by which each, uniting with all, nevertheless obeys only himself, and remains as free as before.
  6. The many become one, and are increased by one.
  7. We are not born for ourselves alone.
  8. The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: "What are you going through?"
  9. Virtues are in general beneficial characteristics, and indeed ones that a human being needs to have, for his own sake and that of his fellows.
  10. It was a democracy because government was by the consent, and subject to the control, of the people as expressed through their representatives. It was consensual because, at least as a rule, that consent was negotiated on the principle of consensus.
  11. Governments are not formed by parties but by the consensus of elected representatives. Government becomes a kind of coalition of citizens.
  12. National consciousness, which is not nationalism, is the only thing that will give us an international dimension.
  13. Ubuntu is the principle that we act humanely and with respect towards others as a way of demanding the same from them.
  14. To be a human being is to affirm one's humanity by recognising the humanity of others and, on that basis, establish humane relations with them.
  15. It is at the heart of national consciousness that international consciousness lives and grows.