Quotes About Individuality

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

the fact that if we all blow ourselves to smithereens, at least Pepito has existed, and that is good, the fact that it's just plain good he was in the world,

I know what it feels like not to fit in, but trying to be like everyone around you doesn't work.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

E quale è di pazzia segno più espresso che, per altri voler, perder se stesso?

A] being to whom his own species … is an object of thought can [also] make the essential nature of other things or beings an object of thought. Hence … man [has] a twofold life: … an inner and outer life. … Man thinks – that is, he converses with himself. Man is himself at once I and thou; he can put himself in place of another, for this reason, that to him his species, his essential nature, and not merely his individuality is an object of thought.

Everything that exists has value, is a being of distinction … [H]ence it asserts, maintains itself.

If all men were absolutely alike, … a single man would have achieved the end of the species.

God as God, … as a being not finite, not human, not materially conditioned, not phenomenal, is only an object of thought. … [H]e is known … only by abstraction and negation … There is no other spirit, no other intelligence which enlightens him, which is active in him. … The 'infinite spirit,' is therefore nothing else than the intelligence disengaged from the limits of individuality and corporeality[.]

Everybody makes his own god(s).

In Christianity, man was concentrated only on himself, he unlinked himself from the chain of sequences in the system of the universe, he made himself a self-sufficing whole, … [H]e no longer regarded himself as being immanent in the world, because he severed himself from connection with it[.]

That which has essential value for man, which he esteems the perfect, the excellent, in which he has true delight, - that alone is God to him. … Therefore, the feeling, sensitive man believes only in a feeling, sensitive God, … [T]hat alone is holy to man which lies deepest within him, which is … the basis, the essence of his individuality. To the feeling man a God without feeling is an empty, abstract, negative God[.]

That which I think only according to the standard of my individuality is not binding on another; it can be conceived otherwise; it is an accidental, merely subjective view.

Fürst! Was Sie sind, sind Sie durch Zufall und Geburt, was ich bin, bin ich durch mich. Fürsten hat es und wird es noch Tausende geben, Beethoven gibt es nur einen.

Prince, what you are, you are through chance and birth; what I am, I am through my own labor. There are many princes and there will continue to be thousands more, but there is only one Beethoven.

Prince, what you are you are by accident of birth; what I am I am through myself. There have been and still will be thousands of princes; there is only one Beethoven.

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

The first thing a genius needs is to breathe free air.