Quotes About Individuality

Cynical views of humans as a mindless mob, incapable of behaving intelligently and peacefully, are used to justify keeping us apart and denying us roles as autonomous actors.

The myth of individuality made capitalism possible and has sustained it to this day.

Before you tell me how to do it better, before you lay out your big plans for changing, fixing, and improving me, before you teach me how to pick myself up and dust myself off so that I can be shiny and successful—know this: I've heard it before. I've been graded, rated, and ranked. Coached, screened, and scored. I've been picked first, picked last, and not picked at all. And that was just kindergarten.

In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.

ironically, we call this attempt by some women to be more like men "feminism," which is more than a little bit like calling an attempt by cats to be like dogs felinism.

If you reduce everything to skin color, you are like someone whose library catalog system puts all the red books over here, and all the gray ones over there. But what do the books say? What are they about? Shouldn't we file them in accordance with what they are saying?

We tend to assume that if the existing authorities tell us to do anything short of swearing an oath to worship Satan, then we have to do it. This does not exhibit a mature theology of resistance.

Aside from your name on the cover of the book, your voice should be your most distinctive signature.

Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty.

Memory is ours as long as we live. Every person is like a snowflake. Every person, like every snowflake is unique. Both people and snowflakes have intricate patterns which have never been replicated and never will. Yet both people and snowflakes melt away before our eyes. Each is frail. Each is, in its own way, something beautiful. Each is so very delicate and vulnerable. Each is precious beyond words.

Today you are you, that's truer than true. No one alive is youer than you.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of him self.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Por otro lado, cada patrón instantáneo de la actividad total de un cerebro humano vivo, activa la emergencia de un campo neuronal específico. Un conjunto de campos neuronales, modificándose en el tiempo, se asocian a un pensamiento y varios pensamientos, ocurriendo en sucesión y entrelazados con cierta sintaxis, dan lugar a la sensación de individualidad, la cual posee una cualidad específica.

Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.

Embrace the AI present and design your own human life

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one's self.

You wouldn't worry so much about what other people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

You have to be odd to be number one

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.