Quotes About Uniqueness

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.

Jesus was immeasurably more human than other human beings

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.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

The values, first of all, of individual freedom, based upon the facts of human diversity and genetic uniqueness; the values of charity and compassion, based upon the old familiar fact, lately rediscovered by modern psychiatry - the fact that, whatever their mental and physical diversity, love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; and finally the values of intelligence, without which love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

Si l'on est différent, il est fatal qu'on soit seul.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by ignoring the uniqueness of particular events, concentrating on what they have in common and finally abstracting some kind of "law," in terms of which they make sense and can be effectively dealt with.

And it's what you never will write, said the Controller. Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

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

All human minds are not the same, that intelligence differs not only in degree, but to some extent also in kind.

In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies of mind and body, and all trying (or becoming compelled) to squeeze their biological diversities into the uniformity of some cultural mold.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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

But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who's any one. I almost envy you, Mr. Watson.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. They're beastly to one.

EÄŸer farkl?ysan, yaln?zl??a mahkûm oluyorsun.

O ser diferente condena a uma fatal solidão.

Todas las personas que no se conforman con la ortodoxia, que tienen ideas propias. En una palabra, personas que son alguien.