Quotes About Individuality

He was a mere child in the world, but he didn't cry for the moon. He said to the world, 'Go your several ways in peace! Wear red coats, blue coats, lawn-sleeves, put pens behind your ears, wear aprons; go after glory, holiness, commerce, trade, any object you prefer; only - let Harold Skimpole live!

A multitude of people and yet a solitude.

We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it.

We like to think we're pretty special, and, OK, in some respects maybe we are. And we like to think that we design for ourselves. And we do, we really do. But in the important ways we are really very much like a lot of other people. And if you are going to design for yourself, then you have to make sure you design deeply for yourself, because otherwise you are just designing for your eccentricities and that can never be satisfying to anyone else.

You are a separate individual among other separate individuals in a universe that is separate from you as well.

Some of us may have experienced it when we find ourselves cooperating naturally and effortlessly, instruments of a purpose greater than ourselves that, paradoxically, makes us individual more and not less when we abandon ourselves to it. It is what musicians are referring to when they say "The music played the band

Everyone is a puppet, but there are no puppet-masters.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

No conozco ninguna norma en cuestiones de religión, filosofía, ciencia, ni complicación de las tareas domésticas, que no pueda ser moldeada para que se ajuste a cualquier exigencia. Ajustamos las normas a nuestras opiniones o quebrantamos una ley que nos apetece quebrantar

For however I may in former days as a young man have liked the notice which the being in a great man's train secures one, now that I have a fixed character of my own, obscurity is far the most agreeable.

The capacity for judgment, to make plans, to choose one's good, is what we share with other persons. It is what makes us persons.

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE

I'm not a joke machine. You can't just feed crap in and get funny out.

Working on the assumption (and it is only an assumption) that we have one life each it is important to every one of us that we do the best we can with it. If society says to us: 'We are prepared to look after you from the cradle to the grave provided you live in a boring place and work at a boring job' then we should consider very seriously whether this is a bargain we want to accept.

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.

You are going to be fine — you come from a long line of lunatics.

Fill paper as you please with triangles and squares...

It may be that most men do not care how they look, so long as they do not look ridiculous, and their conception of looking ridiculous is that they should look different from anybody else.

Art and composition tolerate no conventional fetters: mind and soul soar above them.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behaviour.

You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit.

[W]hat will set your child apart from the others is its name. Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.