Quotes About Individuality

The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better.

Orson Scott Card

It was a new thing in the world, to have someone to talk to who was not substantially yourself.

Don't be one of the scurrying, struggling ants. Be the shoe.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

Lanik : - Je suis en train de perdre Saranna. L'Homee-qui-sais-tout : - C'est très bien. Peresonne ne doit posséder quelqu'un d'autre. >>

Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

I never really had anybody who followed me. Never wanted them. That's the thing, I guess, that set me apart from the rest of the Jeesh—I was the only one who didn't wish I were Ender.

Don't be one of the scurrying, struggling ants. Be the shoe.

Individually, human beings are all dolts.>

Maybe we only thought we were different from each other out of jealousy

If I had any part of you in me," said Han Fei-tzu, "I would not have needed to marry you to become a complete person.

I don't understand people who don't like their pictures taken," said Spunky. "If you can go out in public wearing your face, then how can it bother you for somebody to take a picture of that face?

You couldn't look at children and hope to see much of their parents beyond their physical appearance, and not always that. They came as Wordsworth said, trailing clouds of glory. Along with a few clouds of other things not quite so glorious.

But a person who really believes she doesn't belong to any community at all invariably kills herself, either by killing her body or by giving up her identity and going mad.

His name is Human,' said the Speaker. 'And so is yours,' said the Bishop softly.

You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer. Until you get a soldier who can do more than anyone else. You can't have that. It spoils the symmetry. You must get him in line, break him down, isolate him, beat him until he gets in line with everyone else.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.