Quotes About Individuality

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

And instead of getting all gushy and apologizing for being politically incorrect, Jacky Hart just laughs.

some straight and some gay, all of whom

the truth we have to tell and the things we have to do are too unique to fit within a usual job setting.

Every human being . . . illustrates with their lives how he or she thinks a human being is supposed to live.

Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to the people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves

Owen is Owen. No one gets to tell him how to live his life. Not you, not me, and not some author nobody. Owen gets to choose how his life story goes, and no one, let alone his idiot fictional self, gets to take that away from him.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Do you know what Krishnamurti says? Consciously or unconsciously, we are all completely selfish, and as long as we get what we want, we believe everything is all right.

To create a memorable voice you must first create a memorable character. Of

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Originalitatea nu const? în a spune ce nu a mai spus nimeni, ci în a spune exact ceea ce gândeÈ™ti tu însuÈ›i.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

We all have flaws, he said, and mine is being wicked.

Half a mile from Haverstraw there lived a halfwit fellow, Half his house was brick and red, and half was wood and yellow; Half the town knew half his name but only half could spell it. If you will sit for half an hour, I've half a mind to tell it.

I won't be listed and labeled or tabbed and tagged, said Clode. If I want a book, I'll get a book.

The spike heels left a trail of silent reproach in the broadloom. Petite and lovely as the girl next door, Dusty eschewed manners and bras in a way that complimented her boss's more uptight, corseted approach to life.