Quotes About Individuality

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

only as long as we can laugh at ourselves are we nobody else

Everything's connected," I answered. "That doesn't mean everyone's working towards the same goal.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

For many years now I have had the quaint idea that all humans-yes, the whole six billion of them on this planet-are out of their fucking minds.

The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

Don't waste your time asking somebody else's question.

We have one symptom in common already. Only you may think I've an advantage over you because I can change my name by marrying. Well, I can't. I shall be twenty-four next April. And nobody ever asked me to marry. That means nobody ever is going to. So let's pass on to the next symptom.

Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.

The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Therefore, the more technological the world becomes, the more essential will be the demand for individual freedom and the self-awareness of the individual human being as a counterpoise to technology…. Consequently this trial must contribute to laying down the ground rules for life in human society. What does my own fate signify, after all that has happened and in comparison with so important a goal?

He had a ponytail. But this was not a regular ponytail from the Sixties, not a ponytail for show or for fashion. It was more. It was a personal ponytail, something more defining and lasting. A personal thing is different, and all the books and all the magazines in the world can't tell you what that is.

Everything's different from us. That's why everything exists.