Quotes About Individuality

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

1). When there is enough for all, all should have enough 2). Truths pose as facts with meaning 3). How you act is who you are 4). We are all atheists, we are all believers 5). The meaning of life is found in the attempt to turn our truths into facts 6). Culture is the immortalization of individuality

Indeed, in his view, being difficult – 'singular and reserved, or whatever you may be pleased to call it' – was actually a necessity for those who wanted to achieve remarkable things.

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

The brands we like, and buy, and surround ourselves with—and by now you know I define a "brand" as anything from the music on our playlists to our shoes, to our sheets, to our toothpaste, to the artwork hanging on our walls—have the profoundest possible things to say about who we are.

If a living place can be likened to a city, the art on the wall, or the lack of art, is the first sign

If most of the time they do and feel and think and watch and eat and drink precisely what everyone else does, are Americans really free? There

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..

Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people's sins.

We all shouldn't try to do the same work. Rather, each of us should pay attention to our own responsibilities. Otherwise, we cannot be of one mind and one heart. We must allow the works to be varied so that each of us can remain with what God has entrusted to us. We should simply do the work at hand.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

Gli uomini si vestono di nero e di grigio. Qualcuno osa con colori autunnali e camicie variopinte. E' il problema degli uomini: vogliono essere presi sul serio, quindi pensano di dover far credere che sono privi di fantasia.

The fact that commercial culture always panders to the lowest common denominator of awareness and taste should not stop us in our personal revolution to become real human beings.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

True friends come in all shapes and sizes.