Quotes About Individuality

One is the perfect number. The more things I do alone the better. In Miller's Black Spring he talks about the joy of being able to enjoy one's own company. I think there's nothing better than being a loner. I think it's the best way to be.

You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

"Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

I had rather be a pot-bellied seed cowcumber, flung carelessly on a wood pile to ripen, than tew be an old bachelor.

If you consider yourself a superior type, or even if you be such, let me tell you that the sum total of such superiority, is socially, a minus quantity." I

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one — in me, and in you, and in him. So that if everyone believes himself, all will be united; everyone be himself and all will be as one.

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Every man, knowing to the smallest detail all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these conditions and the difficulty of comprehending them are only his personal, accidental peculiarity, and never thinks that others are surrounded by the same complexity as he is.

As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and peculiar form of beauty.

As the sun and each atom of ether is a shphere complete in itself, yet at the same time only a part of a whole too vast for man to comprehend, so each individual bears within himself his own purpose, yet bears it ot serve a general purpose unfathomable to man.

Why do you need to be like anyone? You're good as you are,

I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgements must be based on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that enormous whole.

He understood that feeling of Levin's so well, knew that for Levin all the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included alll the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human failings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class - herself alone - had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.

She was as easy to recognize in that crowd as a rose among nettles.