Quotes About Individuality

again, her singing was her only absolute, the only thing that was completely her. a thousand classes hadn't given her this concrete insight: her voice was her place in the world, the home she leaves in the morning and returns to at night, in which she can be herself in her entirety and hope to be loved for all that she is and in spite of all she is.

Can't help the way I'm made. Don't want to help it, either. It's gotten me this far. As

Influencers" succeed in a culture when the masses stop reading and thinking for themselves.

He goes his way Without relying on others And does not pride himself On walking alone.70

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77

If you aren't free of yourself how will you ever become yourself?

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others. To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an enquiry, as to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or real bitter.

I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am plac'd in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster, who not being able to mingle and unite in society, has been expell'd all human commerce, and left utterly abandon'd and disconsolate (Hume, 1739, p. 311-312).

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

There is not a great deal of pleasure in only seeing what someone else considers their best pictures.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that's what it's become, of being different.

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Please don't believe anything that I've written in this book unless it feels right to you .

This attitude of judging each other by our "jobs" is to ignore and deny who we really are.

Crazy and insane are words used throughout history to describe people and ideas that are simply different.

We fear being alone if we express our uniqueness because we lack self esteem and inner security.