Quotes About Individuality

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

I am no man, I am dynamite.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

All men should be required to have their marital status tattooed on their foreheads.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

Art is the signature of man.