Quotes About Individuality

Libérese de esos lugares comunes! La creencia es una cuestión religiosa, pero la espiritualidad nace de nuestra conciencia, no importa quiénes seamos o quiénes creamos ser.

Har du aldrig varit rädd att ni var för olika? - Jag ska ge dig ett gott råd: om du är på ett ställe där alla människor är som du, stick därifrån så fort du kan!

if you ever find yourself in a place where everyone around you is just like you, get out of there as fast as you can.

What's amazing about this rule is that people don't even know consciously that it exists, yet it is the kingpin that keeps millions of people chained down. The rule is simple, and incredibly insidious: "Thou shalt not question the operating system thou art given!" What's weird is that you can rebel against the system, but you can't question it.

We all have the right to cherry-pick the advice given us in order to do exactly what we wanted to do in the first place.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

If you have a handlebar mustache, that is pretty much all you are. You are a delivery system for a handlebar mustache.

There's something to be said that if everyone likes something there's gotta be something fucking wrong with it on some level. Unless it's ice cream.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

I don't believe in art. I believe in the artist.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

A book is the product of a different self from the self we manifest in our habits, in our social life, in our vices.

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.

I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire...

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

Each of us is indeed alone.

Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.

The universe is true for us all and dissimilar to each of us.

notre personnalité sociale est une création de la pensée des autres.