Quotes About Individuality

Be you because everyone else is taken!

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

a ship could be built entirely from foreign planks, but it must have its own form

Sitting alone and apart, anybody has the right to talk with contempt of the mob and the crowd and the witless many. For everybody with his wits about him knows well enough that, once the crowd takes him again, he will do very silly things, things unworthy of so intelligent a person.

The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.

The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality. If I love my Lord, I have no business being guided by natural emotions—I have to feed His sheep.

Never make a principle out of your experience;let God be as original with other people as He is with you.

Once your rights to yourself are surrendered to God, your true personal nature begins responding to God immediately. Jesus Christ brings freedom to your total person, and even your individuality is transformed. The transformation is brought about by love—personal devotion to Jesus. Love is the overflowing result of one person in true fellowship with another.

At first, Jesus Christ through His Spirit has to restrain you from doing a great many things that may be perfectly right for everyone else but not right for you. Yet, see that you don't use your restrictions to criticize someone else.

Will and loneliness are at bottom the same.

All great discoveries and undertakings spring from the joy strong men feel in victory. They are products of individuality, not utilitarian thought.

Un tempo non era permesso a nessuno di pensare liberamente. Ora sarebbe permesso, ma nessuno ne è più capace. Ora la gente vuole pensare ciò che si suppone debba pensare. E questo lo considera libertà.

Everyone has a soul. But the great man—the truly significant soul—is rare.

Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.

degree of maturity in the level of personal identification with social, political, or religious ideologies; second, an ability to resist regression when subject to group processes; and third, an ability to adhere to a value system of one's own choosing as opposed to submitting to conventionality.

Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

I have come to the law which I shall now formulate by a method the validity of which I shall now have to prove. The law runs as follows :("For true sexual union it is necessary that there come together a complete male (M) and a complete female (F), even although in different cases the M and F are distributed between the two individuals in different proportions.)

Woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character nor will.

It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius, do not bow to an alien law. The rest try to justify their doings and misdoings, their thinking and existence (at least the menial side of it), to some one else, whether it be the personal God of the Jews, or a beloved, respected, and revered human being. It is only in this way that they can bring their lives under the social law.