Quotes About Individuality

Her hair cinnabar red, her body all the treasures of Egypt. There won't be another find like you Louise. I won't see anybody else.

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? By forgetting. We cannot keep in mind too many things. There is only the present and nothing to remember

Hay quien se cría en una colina y quien se cría en el valle. La mayoria lo hace en el llano. Yo vine a la vida inclinada, y así es como he vivido desde entonces.

Take no notice of anyone you don't respect.

Why be happy when you could be normal ?

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond one's own age.

We no longer dare seem what we really are, but lie under a perpetual restraint; in the meantime the herd of men, which we call society, all act under the same circumstances exactly alike, unless very particular and powerful motives prevent them. Thus we never know with whom we have to deal; and even to know our friends we must wait for some critical and pressing occasion; that it, till it is too late; for it is on those very occasion that such knowledge is of use to us.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Renoncer à sa liberté c'est renoncer à sa qualité d'homme, aux droits de l'humanité, même à ses devoirs.

Si hubiese sabido desprenderme del yugo de la amistad, como del de la opinión, hubiera logrado completamente mi objeto, quizá el más grande, o a lo menos el más útil para la virtud, que jamás mortal alguno haya concebido;

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated.

Daha iyi de?ilim belki, ama en az?ndan ba?kay?m.

Su principal deber es procurar su propia conservación, sus principales cuidados son los que se debe a sí mismo; y después que adquiere uso de razón, siendo él sólo el juez de los medios propios para conservarse, llega a ser por este motivo su propio dueño.

Cuando por casualidad encuentro alguno que ha escapado a las instrucciones comunes, o que al no conocer mi cara no me muestra ninguna aversión, el honesto saludo de ese solo me restituye de la actitud arisca de los demás. Los olvido para no ocuparme sino de él, y me imagino que tiene una de esas almas como la mía, donde el odio no podría penetrar.

No hay día que no recuerde con gozo y ternura aquel único y breve tiempo de mi vida en que fui plenamente yo, sin mezcla y sin traba, y en que puedo realmente decir que he vivido.

Nikdy jsem nemyslil, že svoboda ?lovÄ›ka by záležela v tom, aby dÄ›lal, co chce, nýbrž spíÅ¡, aby nikdy nedÄ›lal, co nechce, a to je svoboda, jíž jsem se vždy dovolával, ?asto ji zachovával a pro kterou jsem byl nejvíce svým vrstevník?m k pohorÅ¡ení

En vérité, je ne songeais guère à faire ni comme les autres ni autrement qu'eux. Je désirais sincèrement de faire ce qui était bien.

He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.

There are in all ages men born to be in bondage to the opinions of the society in which they live.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.