Quotes About Individuality

The soul of this man is in his clothes.

This above all to thine own self be true.

To Thine Ownself Be True

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Normal" women were rare, unless one considered Judy Garland a normal woman.

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. ... And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail, but if one wanders the circus won't find the park, I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

It is all right to be simply the way you have to be, among contradictory ridges in some crescendo of knowing.

I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.

some historians now say there is no single history at all—just a multitude of histories, one for each region, language, family, industry, class, and race.

It points, for instance, to the fact that there is never an abstract, single 'Christian answer' to an issue to which all Christians are bound to adhere or conform.

Acceptance of another person is acceptance of the other as he is, without entailing any demands that he change in any empirical way. This boy is an addict, and while I would rejoice if he were freed from this affliction, that would not change or increase my acceptance of him as a person. And though I am not an addict, that makes me no better nor any worse than he. I am not his judge. I am just his friend.

Over and over again, while I was in the law school, I was astonished at how eagerly many of my peers surrendered to this regimen of professionalistic conditioning, often squelching their own most intelligent opinions or creative impulses in order to conform or to appear to be conforming.

The first requirement of personality is always freedom—

You are the first one, so we are your servants," another replies. "That makes sense," agrees another clone.

Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back—throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion—and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?

Ninety-nine (students) out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we're watching, and dealing with.

the golden pathway to learning, not just in music but in anything in life, is through one's own, individual, honest mistakes.

Gyerekfejjel Joan meg én külön világot teremtettünk magunknak, szembeszegülve azzal, amit most feln?ttként lelki szegénységnek nevezek. A lelki szegények szüntelen gyanakvással tekintenek mindenre, ami eltér az átlagtól, ismeretlen vagy nem általánosan elfogadott; azontúl minden, ami nem jár gyakorlati haszonnal, ugyancsak elvetend? a szemükben.

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here — Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.