Quotes About Uniqueness

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

He's a remarkable dog," said Lucky. "And he proved something to me. There are different forms of strength. You don't need to be just like everyone else to succeed in this world.

I've been thinking about what you said yesterday, he says. About my unique qualities and talents and all that. You're right. I am unique and talented. And you're unique, too. We're both unique. Everyone is unique. In a way, I say. But unique just means unique. It doesn't mean good.

Jsme Norové a jsme všichni divní. A protože všichni jsou divní, je svým zp?sobem normální být divný, proto záv?r zní, že nikdo z nás není divný. Jsme jen Norové.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.

I was too weird, even for the weirdos.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Darwin completely rejected typological thinking and introduced instead the entirely different concept now called population thinking. All groupings of living organisms, including humanity, are populations that consist of uniquely different individuals. By rejecting the constancy of populations, Darwin helped to introduce history into scientific thinking and to promote a distinctly new approach to explanatory interpretation in science.

Maybe all that I am in this world and all that I have been and done comes down to nothing more than being a touch of color in a prosaic world. Even that is something."

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

I stood out, and felt the constant touch of others' eyes.

But we all have a unique way of seeing and relating to the world, too. We are each utterly distinct persons. Out of our distinct love, we notice distinct aspects of reality, and reality responds to us along the lines of our distinctive care. Also, we all view life from a vantage point at least slightly different from anyone else's. And our experiences and training distinguish us from each other. Yet, as persons, we can share and delight in our differences.

We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it.

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

There is no model conversion. There is no prescribed ritual, whether emotional or liturgical. We are all different. God is the same and has the same salvation to work in us, but he creates an original story every time.