Quotes About Individuality

To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable.

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

Be the one who sets the trend, not the one who follows it.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the man.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .

All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.

The best-adjusted people are the 'psychologically patriotic,' who are glad to be what they are.

I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Don't let them tame you.

Beati coloro che accettano senza discutere la disciplina in cui vivono, che obbediscono liberamente agli ordini dei capi...o coloro che sono pervenuti, per vie proprie, a convinzioni chiare e incrollabili...Coloro che riposano su questi comodi letti dogmatici sono vittime di forme di miopia autoindotta e portano paraocchi che possono anche dare l'appagamento, ma non certo la comprensione di cosa significa essere uomo.

Orthodoxy is my Doxy, Heterodoxy is the other fellow's Doxy.

To some if you owned your own mind you were indeed sick but when you possessed an Atonist mind you were healthy. A mind which sought to interpret the world by using a single loa. Somewhat like filling a milk bottle with an ocean.

Unique feelings are so unique that they can not be popularized. Feelings without words in the dictionary disappear. Every year thousands of feelings disappear for lack of a concrete form.

Feelings demand living space.

What's your name?' 'Names!' she sniffed, rolling her eyes. 'People always want names, don't they? They're mad about naming. I will let the moment name me.' she eyed Jack expectantly. 'You want me to name you?' he asked. 'People from the other side are very dull,' she sighed. 'Give yourself a name for me. I don't need naming for myself, do I?