Quotes About Individual

Our individual loneliness, our anxiety, our depression, our broken and disappointed families, our fractured communities, are not what they are because of some choice we could easily unmake or remake.

Well, yeah," says Terry, "they are, but it was only designed for one person.

The soul cannot be intellectually grasped or scientifically examined, Emerson insisted; it can only be felt, loved, and enjoyed. Through our individual souls, we have direct access to the universal soul—God.

Sexual pleasure is a legitimate right of the human being.

In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.

No information is valuable enough to obtain by nipping away at personal liberty, and this is true no matter who's doing the gnawing."149

It takes two to tango" isn't even true on the dance floor. One person can do a lot of evil all on his or her own. But the Theory of Mutual Blame arose sometime before Doc was even born. Perhaps it was a takeoff on Freud's seduction theory or the more generic practice of blaming victims for being alive. Its origins were unclear, but no one had ever had to take full responsibility for their own actions since.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them.

Exigir la inmortalidad del individuo es querer perpetuar un error hasta el infinito

Our arrogance causes us to imagine special value in this temporary collection of molecules. Why do we perceive more spiritual value in the sum of our body parts than on any individual cell in our body? Why don't we hold funerals when skin cells die?

The end was right up close and personal, different for each person, a kick in the rear and a joy-buzzer handshake from the Reaper himself. But

Moet ik dan soms in duizend boeken lezen dat er op aarde veel wordt afgetobd en maar een enkeling gelukkig zit te wezen?

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.

We know now that someone in a leadership role has three core and overlapping functions: to achieve the tasks, to hold a group together as a unity, and to meet individual needs.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

If the word revolution is used seriously and not merely as an epithet for this season's novelties, it implies a process. No revolution is simply the result of personal originality. The maximum that such originality can achieve is madness: madness is revolutionary freedom confined to the self.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

I have come to believe that an individual consciousness represents an entity so personal and ontologically unique that it qualifies as something we might as well call a soul.

As the Scholar says, blame the individual, and the problem persists; analyse the system, and you're already one step closer to finding a solution.

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must be according to God's will as the perfect measure; that He can never deny Himself and is no mere spirit form to be changed around according to individual preference.

That there exists in the human mind and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity [sensus divinitatis], we hold to be beyond dispute, since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men with some idea of his Godhead…. …this is not a doctrine which is first learned at school, but one as to which every man is, from the womb, his own master; one which nature herself allows no individual to forget.