Quotes About Individuality

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

Maybe what I want is to cut all ties with everybody. The thread or something that keeps me connected to the world, the worthless proof that I exist.

Sich mit diesem oder jenem zu identifizieren, ist also ein normaler Vorgang. Gefährlich wird es, sobald eine einzige Identität bestimmend wird, sobald man nur noch Muslim ist oder Christ oder Deutscher, Iraner oder meinetwegen Anhänger eines bestimmten Fußballclubs oder eines Popstars. Dann wird aus der pragmatischen Einschränkung, die jede Art von Identifizierung bedeutet, eine reale Verstümmelung der Persönlichkeit.

I was like a woman walking through an enchanted world to which she did not belong. She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.

Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

You mustn't judge them so harshly. Everyone has a right to their own beliefs no matter how imbecilic.

Well, you can fuck off,' said Blade. 'I am Mobius Clean,' said the AI.

much like a fingerprint, the size and shape of the ear, as well as the angle at which it joins the face, are unique to each individual.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.

Give your product a personality. 37signals may not sell the best project management software in the world, but it has personality. The 37signals team stands for something: uncompromising simplicity. Want an extra feature? Tough. If you want features, buy something else.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody.

Look, you're not French, let's face it . . . and who wants to be, anyway, in this day and age? Being French is way past cool.

in a few moments he came into the core of himself, where he was alone, and felt strangely companioned, not by anyone or anything, but by himself. The rejected self found refuge here, not a cowed refuge, but somehow a wandering ease; as if it were indestructible, and had its own final pride, its own secret eyes.

Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.

What you own is your own kingdom / What you do is your own glory / What you love is your own power / What you live is your own story

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration