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Quotes About Individual

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
~ Mark Twain
You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel
~ Mark Twain
The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
The greatest love letters are always encoded for the one and not the many.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
There was once a strange, small man. But there was a world shaker, too.
~ Markus Zusak
That's what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.
~ Marlon James
Suffering doesn't concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn't relative, is it.
~ Martin Amis
Suffering doesn't concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn't relative, is it. I can't be the only one to have noticed that. Whoever said it first – did they have more to say? The
~ Martin Amis
Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business
~ Martin Cohen
There's even less acceptance of bisexuality than homosexuality. Binary thinking still holds strong sway with the general population, and the exclusive homosexual is more understandable to the average person than is an individual who wanders the Kinsey scale with apparent—and alarming—abandon.
~ Martin Duberman
Psychopathy is both a serious psychological disorder that threatens our individual happiness and a widespread social problem that threatens our entire civilization.
~ Martin Kantor
Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be worthy of its New Testament origin, the church must seek to transform both individual lives and the social situation that brings to many people anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rationalization and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our individual and collective sins. But the day has passed for bland euphemisms. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
For in a struggle one must have both legs firmly planted on the earth. The Party had taught one how to do it. The infinite was a politically suspect quantity, the `I' a suspect quality. The Party did not recognize its existence. The definition of an individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
~ Arthur Koestler
on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insignificant compared to the holocausts resulting from self-transcending devotion to collectively shared belief-systems. It is derived from primitive identification instead of mature social integration; it entails the partial surrender of personal responsibility and produces the quasi-hypnotic phenomena of group-psychology.
~ Arthur Koestler
Art, like religion, is a school of self-transcendence; it expands individual awareness into cosmic awareness, as science teaches us to reduce any particular puzzle to the great universal puzzle.
~ Arthur Koestler
The Eureka act proper, the moment of truth experienced by the creative individual, is paralleled on the collective plane by the emergence, out of the scattered fragments, of a new synthesis, brought about by a quick succession of individual discoveries-where, characteristically, the same discovery is often made by several individuals at the same time.
~ Arthur Koestler
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~ Arthur Koestler
The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently no longer takes any share in his individual phenomenon, because in him knowledge has, as it were, burnt up and consumed the will, so that no will, thus no desire for individual existence, remains in him any more.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer