Quotes About Individuality

Um ein tadelloses Mitglied einer Schafherde sein zu können, muß man vor allem ein Schaf sein.

Don't judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree.

Pour être un membre irréprochable parmi une communauté de moutons, Il faut avant toute chose être soi-même un mouton.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Be a voice, not an echo.

Colui che segue la folla non andrà mai più lontano della folla. Colui che va da solo sarà più probabile che si troverà in luoghi dove nessuno è mai arrivato...

What a person does on his own, without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of others, is even in the best of cases rather paltry and monotonous.

Peu d'être sont capables d'exprimer posément une opinion différente des préjugés de leur milieu. La plupart des êtres sont même incapables d'arriver à formuler une.

A un hombre interiormente libre, y escrupuloso, se le puede destruir, pero no se puede hacer de él ni un esclavo ni una herramienta ciega.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

No es suficiente enseñar a los hombres una especialidad. Con ello se convierten en máquinas utilizables pero no en individuos válidos. Tiene que recibir un sentimiento vivo de lo bello y lo moralmente bueno. En caso contrario se parece más a un perro bien amaestrado que a un entre armónicamente desarrollado.

Para ser un miembro irreprochable de un rebaño de ovejas hace falta primero ser oveja.

If you tell a fish you can't climb a tree, then it will think he/she is dumb forever

Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

Sin personalidades creativas que piensen por sí mismas es impensable el desarrollo de la comunidad.

We're all a genius, but If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Be yourself for a while, even it's hurt.

in certain societies there is a systematic underestimate of one's own creativity

I soon discovered that one doesn't simply read Crime and Punishment or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . One reads a certain edition, a specific copy, recognizable by the roughness or the smoothness of its paper, by its scent, by a slight tear on page 72 and a coffee ring on the right-hand corner of the back cover.

I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom — the absence of physical constraint — is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.