Quotes About Individuality

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

The value of a human being, Nietzsche said, does not lie in his usefulness: for it would continue to exist even if there were nobody to whom he could be useful.

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all think alike, no one thinks very much

Those whom we love and admire most are the men and women whose consciousness is peopled thickly with persons rather than with types, who know us rather than the classification into which we might fit.

The public must be put in its place [...] so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

Laddove tutti pensano allo stesso modo, nessuno pensa un gran che

We are all poets, really.

They have lived in the lonely places because they are independent, not because they are like their own sheep. What they have is not a lot but it belongs to them and they have to thank no other man for it.

Ich weiß, jeder hält sich für normal. Und alle anderen für durchgedreht. Der irrste Irre wie der irrste Irrenarzt. Jedes Gehirn ist anders, jedes Gehirn ist verrückt und jedes Gehirn ist anders verrückt.

Aber dein Gehirn ist ein Dschungel wie jedes andere Gehirn auch. Ein wilder, gefährlicher, gnaden- und gesetzloser Urwald voller unberechenbarer Kreaturen. Pferkte Ordnung und totales Chaos, Diktatur und Anarchie, freier Wille und irrer Zwang, Fressen und Gefressenwerden - all das existiert darin. [...] jedes Gehirn ist anders verrückt. Aber auf keinen Fall ist es nur - auch nicht deins.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

El individuo ha luchado siempre para no ser absorbido por la tribu. Si lo intentas, a menudo estarás solo y a veces asustado. Pero ningún precio es demasiado alto por el privilegio de ser uno mismo. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

La autorrealización es un derecho que tienes por el solo hecho de haber nacido.

Premisa liberadora IX. Someterte al "qué dirán" es una forma de esclavitud socialmente aceptada

Hasta que tuve veinte años, nunca me preocupó lo que la gente pudiera pensar de mí. A partir de los veinte me preocupaba constantemente lo que pudieran pensar mis vecinos. Pero un día, después de cumplir los cincuenta, de pronto comprendí que ellos difícilmente habían pensado en mí

Estas personas tienen claro que el fin no justifica los medios y que no se debe ser esclavo de un sistema que te estruja para que sobresalgas del resto y acaricies la tan ansiada "perfección psicológica

Participo de la vida social e incluso con el bien común, pero siendo YO. Así, con mayúsculas.

puedes ser escandalosamente feliz en medio de tu maravillosa imperfección.