Quotes About Individuality

En un mot, s'il y a au monde quelque ouvrage qui ne puisse être si bien achevé par aucun autre que par le même qui l'a commencé, c'est celui auquel je travaille».

It's funny, I've decided 'Hallelujah' is a kind of Rorschach test for people, because everyone has a different reaction to it and to what I'm doing. I just sang it, and whatever came out was just natural and spontaneous and maybe that's the best thing, because there's a kind of enigma, both in the meaning of the words and the way Leonard Cohen said them, that catches people's attention.

Un homme sans défauts est une montagne sans crevasses. Il ne m'intéresse pas.

That's why he's called Legion—in a way he's the embodiment of the crowd. It's the crowd that comes out of him and goes and throws itself off of the cliff. We're witnessing the birth of an individual capable of escaping the fatal destiny of collective violence.

Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is the unanimous self-deception we call mythology.

Ka?de indywiduum przejawia tendencj? do czucia si? "bardziej innym" od wszystkich bli?nich i równocze?nie ka?da kultura przejawia tendencj? do my?lenia o sobie nie tylko jak o ró?nej od innych, lecz ponadto jak o maksymalnie ró?nej od innych, bowiem ka?da kultura podtrzymuje owo uczucie "inno?ci" w?ród pozostaj?cych w jej kr?gu jednostek.

Le leggi del desiderio sono universali ma non comportano l'uniformità delle opere romanzesche, nemmeno sui punti di applicazione. La legge fonda la diversità e la rende intelligibile. L'unità romanzesca appare a condizione che smettiamo di considerare il personaggio - il sacrosanto individuo - come una entità perfettamente autonoma e scopriamo le leggi dei rapporti fra tutti i personaggi.

A mere glance at things as they are is enough to make it clear that the aim is everywhere to reduce everything to uniformity, whether it be human beings themselves or the things among which they live, and it is obvious that such a result can only be obtained by suppressing as far as possible every qualitative distinction.

Be careful not to censor yourself to fit a certain situation or group of people. When we start to censor ourselves we can easily censor ourselves right out of our lives.

You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem.

She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby.

You cannot be forever watching for the point, or you lose the simplest thing: being a major character in your own life.

in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else is misunderstanding.

America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.

The selfish thing to do was to play to everyone's needs to feel accepted. The unselfish thing to do was to be the person God created me to be, to serve him and people, to speak the truth, even when the truth wasn't going to make me popular.

This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

This is my mind. Only I have the right to be here.

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

We are all sculptors and painters. Our material is our own flesh, blood and bones. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Often we are so intent on being our mate's everything that nothing else matters until, one day, we wake up and realize we no longer know our own purpose.

Wolfe could get sentimental about it if he wanted to, but I don't like any stranger nosing around my private affairs, let alone a nation of 130 million people.-Archie Goodwin