Quotes About Individuality

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has

Well, neither does anyone else. We use concepts like 'consciousness'—'mind'—'personality,' but we don't really know yet what they are. So when I start talking about something like multiple or split personality, all we have are some

Well, they couldn't, so apparently each of these cells has a consciousness, maybe, of its own. Are you with me?" Chris nodded. "Yeah, a little." "Good. Now imagine that the human body

People are the undisputed experts on themselves. No one has been with them longer, or knows them better than they do themselves. In MI, the helper is a companion who typically does less than half of the talking.

these four person-centered conditions convey what we mean by "acceptance." One honors each person's absolute worth and potential as a human being, recognizes and supports the person's irrevocable autonomy to choose his or her own way, seeks through accurate empathy to understand the other's perspective, and affirms the person's strengths and efforts.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

Musashi could teach his techniques and give advice, but in the end each disciple was required to assess his own strength, find his own Way, and make that Way truly his own.

This above all - to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

In following him, I follow but myself.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.

An ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own.

I will not jump with common spiritsAnd rank me with the barbarous multitude.

Who is it that says most? which can say moreThan this rich praise,—that you alone are you?

I am not in the roll of common men.

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.