Quotes About Individuality

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

I'm not ashamed of myself.

I do not let anyone make me feel ashamed of being who I am.

Les différences entre un soldat, un ouvrier, un administrateur, un avocat, un oisif, un savant, un homme d'état, un commerçant, un marin, un poète, un pauvre, un prêtre, sont, quoique plus difficiles à saisir, aussi considérables que celles qui distinguent le loup, le lion, l'âne, le corbeau, le requin, le veau marin, la brebis, etc. Il a donc existé, il existera donc de tout temps des Espèces Sociales comme il y a des Espèces Zoologiques

But stay, you shall not come from Havre to Paris to see Canalis without carrying something back with you. Warrior!" (Canalis had the form and action of an Homeric hero) "learn this from the poet: Every noble sentiment in man is a poem so exclusively individual that his nearest friend, his other self, cares nothing for it. It is a treasure which is his alone, it is —

Há, sem dúvida, pessoas que não têm o mesmo aspecto nem o mesmo valor, quando separadas das pessoas, das coisas, dos lugares que lhes servem de moldura.

The hat, above all, struck me; it is a sort of truncated column, and does not adapt itself in the least to the shape of the head; but I am told it is easier to bring about a revolution than to invent a graceful hat.

For some time past she had been suspected of being au fond, in spite of appearances, an "original." In the provinces it was not permissible to be original: being original means having ideas that are not understood by others; the provinces demand equality of mind as well as equality of manners and customs.

Los hombres de genio no tenían hermanos ni hermanas, ni padres ni madres; las grandes obras que habrían de crear les imponían un egoísmo aparente al obligarles a sacrificarlo todo a su grandeza.

Cada cual tiene su modo de amar; el mío, sin embargo, no hace mal a nadie; ¿por qué, entonces, la gente habrá de ocuparse de mí?

Passive obedience is as well known in a Government department as in the army itself; and the administrative system silences consciences, annihilates the individual, and ends (give it time enough) by fashioning a man into a vise or a thumbscrew, and he becomes part of the machinery of Government

?nsan?n manevi yarad?l??? maddi yarad?l???ndan ?u bak?mdan ayr?l?r: Bunda hiçbir ?ey mutlak de?ildir; izlenimlerin yo?unlu?u bir olay çevresine toplad???m?z ki?ilere ya da dü?üncelere göre de?i?ir.

Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.

And don't let anyone trick you into playing bass. The world's got enough chick bass players Seriously, though. Why play bass when you can play guitar?

And it was in sheer self-defence that they obeyed - as if by dancing they somehow or other escaped from that tune, which seemed to be themselves.

it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwittingly giving you for a portrait — a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished.

I'm not the same as you, father," he said quietly. And then once more he was shaken by great sobs, and screamed out in a voice of anguish, "I have eaten fairy fruit!

Was it possible that Ranulph, too, was a real person, a person inside whose mind things happened? He had thought that he himself was the only real person in a field of human flowers. For Master Nathaniel that was a moment of surprise, triumph, tenderness, alarm.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

How comes it, Maecenas, that no man living is content with the lot that either his choice has given him, or chance has thrown in his way, but each has praise for those who follow other paths?

I hate the common herd of men and keep them afar. Let there be sacred silence: I, the Muses' priest, sing for girls and boys songs not heard before.

Taught or untaught, we all scribble poetry.

The story's about you.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.