Quotes About Uniqueness

my century..is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form….

Das Wunderbare am Menschen ist, daß er wohl derselbe bleibt, aber nicht der gleiche.

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

Noise is mostly a by-product of our uniqueness, of our "judgment personality.

counties are different from other counties for a reason, that there must be a cause that explains this difference. As we shall see, however

It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal.

You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.

We don't always see ourselves as superior, but we almost always see ourselves as unique. Even when we do precisely what others do, we tend to think that we're doing it for unique reasons.

Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.

What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world devoid of numbers. Every snowflake, unique as every number, tells us something about complexity. Perhaps that is why we will never tire of its wonder.

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

nothing in the history of mankind is ever repeated, things that at first glance seem the same are scarcely even similar; each individual is a star unto himself, everything happens always and never, all things repeat themselves ad infinitum yet are unique.

Jer - a to je mislim osnovna poruka sastavlja?a "Enciklopedije" - nikad se ništa ne ponavlja u istoriji ljudskih bi?a, sve što se na prvi pogled ?ini da je isto jedva da je sli?no; svaki je ?ovek zvezda za sebe, sve se doga?a uvek i nikad, sve se ponavlja beskrajno i neponovljivo. (Stoga sastavlja?i "Enciklopedije mrtvih", tog veli?anstvenog spomenika razli?itosti, insistiraju na pojedina?nom, zato im je svako ljudsko stvorenje svetinja.)

The most beautiful things have character and experience built into them.

Naciste original, no mueras siendo una copia,

Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and fifty tails.

Copy individuals who are weird.

If you draw, if you dance, if you like poetry, if you like spoken word, whatever, if you like polka dots—use who you are, who you really are, as a positive. That's your superpower.

We could end up with the world's first Mr and Mrs Dave and Dave Gorman-Gorman!

Defining the norm is its instrument of control over idiosyncrasy.

Why march to the beat of your own drummer when you can skip?

If you haven't got your own mind and can't do what you want, you're not an individual, just part of a mass.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.