Quotes About Individuality

Onaj ko uvek nosi samo konfekcijske haljine, uvek je spreman da po?ne da sumnja u postojanje kroja?a.

And in this house it was tacitly required that I act like a boy. The reluctant masquerade had begun. At about this time I was beginning to understand vaguely the mechanism of the fact that what people regarded as a pose on my part was actually an expression of my need to assert my true nature, and that it was precisely what people regarded as my true self which was a masquerade.

Someone once said that homosexuals have on their faces a certain loneliness that will not come off.

Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any impusle to express things and to make others understand something that I knew. I thought that those things which could be seen by others were not ordained for me. My solitude grew more and more obese, just like a pig.

Kendini, göklerden de büyük bir halkan?n ortas?na hapsolmuÅŸ buldun; bunun d???ndaki her ÅŸey s?radan. Bizlerin salt otlat?lmak için d??ar?ya ç?kar?ld???m?z? kavram??s?n. GevÅŸek bir ipe baÄŸlanm??, cahil hayvanlar olduÄŸumuzu.

Don't ask things that don't concern you. After all, everybody has their own reasons.

É certo que me influenciaram e são mais ou menos responsáveis pelo acto que cometi em seguida; quero porém continuar a pensar que esse acto é apenas meu, e ficaria especialmente irritado se o imputassem à influência directa de alguma filosofia existente.

privilege of contempt for the generality of spiritual activities

Comprendo que en América Latina la psicoterapia se haya convertido en algo similar a eso, porque se trata de una moda estúpida que no intenta más que uniformar a la humanidad, rica y variada; una moda que instruye a los seres mediocres deseosos de llevar una a una a las ovejas descarriadas al redil del conformismo.

UrâÈ›enia mea este special?", s-a gândit el, redobândindu-È™i încrederea imediat.

Comprendo que en América la psicoterapia se haya convertido en algo similar a eso, porque se trata de una moda estúpida que no intenta más que uniformar a la humanidad, rica y variada; una moda que instruye a los seres mediocres deseosos de llevar una a una a las ovejas descarriadas al redil del conformismo.

In short, spirit must be viewed as the special characteristic that differentiates man from the animals. It is the only essential difference.

The very thing that makes a star spectacular is the same thing that strikes him from the world at large and makes him an outsider.

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a 'function', one cog in a machine.

I have lived as I am! Right now I am everything that I am!

How we live is all that matters,not who made us,or out of what parts! Free will is what we make of it!

Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

However, over the last few decades the life sciences have reached the conclusion that this liberal story is pure mythology. The single authentic self is as real as the eternal soul, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. If I look really deep within myself, the seeming unity that I take for granted dissolves into a cacophony of conflicting voices, none of which is 'my true self'. Humans aren't individuals. They are 'dividuals'.

We think we know far more today, but as individuals, we actually know far less.

don't confuse uniqueness with superiority.

Yet since these triumphs actually result from mass cooperation, it is far less clear why they should make us revere individual humans.

I teach the kids history, or quantum physics, or art – but above all I try to teach them to think for themselves.

There is no authentic self waiting to be liberated from the manipulative shell.

Identity is defined by conflicts and dilemmas more than by agreement