Quotes About Uniqueness

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

I do not choose to be a common man.

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.