Quotes About Individuality

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

One man's creativity is another's brain damage.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.

You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You've got to show up and own it. If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

No man knows himself as an original.

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see,They live in fredome, everich in his kynd.And I a man, and lakkith libertee.

I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.

No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.