Quotes About Individuality

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

I feel outside of the system where you're male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don't represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

Every man is a new method.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.