Quotes About Individuality

UnLondon would have to look after itself. She wasn't the Shwazzy. She was just someone. How could just someone be any help, whatever was going on?

None of us have to obey instructions. I consider my own existence proof of that. So much of life is cobbled together when plans go awry. That is often where happiness comes from.

point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respect your individuality and your right to make choices. That's concrete individuality: an individuality that recognizes that it owes its existence to a kind of communal respect on the part of all the other individualities, and that it had better therefore respect them similarly.

Godspit and shit, Jack, don't start with 'the limits of individual action' right now. I'm just tired. Sometimes, don't you sometimes wish you didn't care? I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain't godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn't care." Fishday

Spending time with most automa is like accompanying someone brutally cognitively damaged, but Ehrsul was a friend. "Come save me from the village idiots," she sometimes said to me after downloading updates alongside other automa.

One in particular—the younger, named, he told us, Dahar Jaris, not the man Dhatt menaced, but a boy in a battered denim jacket with NoMeansNo written on the back in English print that made me suspect it was the name of a band, not a slogan—had a voice that was familiar.

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.

There is only one pretty child in the world and everymother has it

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.

The more we identify ourselves with the little 'I' in us,

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

If you don't like my story,write your own

Nobody can teach me who I am.

Beware the soul-sucking force of reasonableness

It's like Tolstoy's quote: "All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." All

each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone

Each desire in the world is different, as is each love.

I thought that if lokas existed at all, good women would surely go to one where men were not allowed so that they could be finally free of male demands. However, I prudently kept this theory to myself.