Quotes About Individuality

All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy

Com os olhos abertos, repartimos o mesmo mundo; com os olhos fechados cada um de nós penetra o seu próprio mundo.

A man's character is his fate.

Character is our destiny.

Man's character is his fate.

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.

The waking have one world in common. Sleepers meanwhile turn aside, each into a darkness of his own.

For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

Though the logos is common, the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

The creative talent belongs to the outsider, and to be an outsider is the artist's fate.

For Marcuse, the distinguishing features of a human being are free and creative subjectivity. If in one's economic and social life one is administered by a technical labor apparatus and conforms to dominant social norms, one is losing one's potentialities of self-determination and individuality. Alienated from the powers of being-a-self, one-dimensional man thus becomes an object of administration and conformity.

Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

Once teachers can forget how a class should be they can discover each year what it must be like with that specific class at that particular moment in their lives.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

Ilse zegt: 'Maar ik dacht dat je... Dat je - hoe heet het - vrij was. Dat je -' 'Dat ben ik ook. In overdrachtelijke zin. Er is een oud...' Ik zie de Japanners opstaan en weggaan - 'Een oud Japans spreekwoord dat zegt: Vrij hoef je niet alleen te zijn als je alleen bent. Het is dan ook in die zin dat ik het begrip 'vrijheid' koester.

I didn't go to political correctness school.

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.