Quotes About Individuality

I don't care what people think, people are stupid

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Women do not know how to separate the soul from the body.

I am bored in France, especially as everyone resembles Voltaire.

The world is composed of folks who can think only in common, in bands.

Dandyism is the last spark of heroism amid decadence.

Art is not a sack race.

You know, very few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim they do, but they don't. They want to retain the invisibility of childhood anonymity forever. But that's not possible except in a police state. In an ordinary life, you have to become yourself.

Al llevarme a casa, Harry me dijo —¿cómo podía no saberlo?—que Jackson Pollock se había rebanado la punta de su dedo meñique a los siete años. ¡Siete! Jesucristo. Ni siquiera mi dolor era original

You know, few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim that they do, but they don't. They want to retain the invisibility of childhood anonymity forever. But that's not possible except in a police state. In an ordinary life, you have to become yourself.

Everybody should customize their names.

Joan Jett at the far left, staring straight into the camera, her eyes dragging me in. Just like the mystery chick at the Stop-N-Go.

Not all people are affected the same way by the same events. We are each our own fingerprints and the sum of our own life's experiences.

God would reveal "Himself to anyone who would "listen," and that "He" had a minutely detailed plan for every human life. The sheer chutzpah of this belief is positively breathtaking. It's the most grandiose excuse imaginable for the evasion of individual thought, responsibility, and decision making.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

We have as many personalities as we have friends' Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

The mark in the snow shows a weight. Who refuses his choices refuses oneself. (La marque dans la neige vit un poids. Se refuse qui refuse ses choix)

We do not counterfeit his own signature, but his nature. (On ne contrefait sa propre - Signature, mais sa nature.)