Quotes About Individuality

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

The path of genius is free, and its own

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Normal? Hateful word, normal. No meaning whatsoever.

Nomole is just a mole

So when all your friends are investing in a certain area, when the business pages are full of stories about a particular company, and when "everybody knows" that something is a good deal, haul up the red flags. In short, identify current conventional wisdom so that you can ignore it.

I may not be different, but I'm definitely not the same.

The schools turn wonder into drudgery and uniqueness into aberration. Acceptance by the dulled others becomes worth almost any surrender, and nothing is worth the price of solitude: to read, to ponder, to paint, to pray. In the new Plato's cave, we have the electronic shadows to make the unreal true and to give us an ersatz peace — even though every ad ever produced is deliberately formulated to make us unhappy.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

Everyone's story matters.

It's quite uncanny what one sets in motion by being oneself.

there was probably something different about everybody and Karl's way of being different was no worse than anybody else's.

don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. To hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

but good friendships require complementary personalities, not identical ones.

A hint of nonconformity was all he would risk.