Quotes About Individuality

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

My own mind is my own church.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

I got my own way of praying.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

You got your God and so do I.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.

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.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

We have this one life, let's enjoy it, let's live it to the full and don't get so worked up about don't identify yourself so passionately with this business called religion.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.