Quotes About Individual

There is only one power that determines the course of history, just as it determines the course of every individual life: the power of man's rational faculty—the power of ideas.

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.

Resentment is a passion, implanted by nature for the preservation of the individual. Injury is the object which excites it. Injustice, wrong, injury excites the feeling of resentment, as naturally and necessarily as frost and ice excite the feeling of cold, as fire excites heat, and as both excite pain. A man may have the faculty of concealing his resentment, or suppressing it, but he must and ought to feel it. Nay he ought to indulge it, to cultivate it. It is a duty. —John Adams

The amount of information that is necessary for even a general grasp of the questions dealt with in the Project exceeds, to tell the truth, the brain capacity of a single individual. But ignorance, while it checks the enthusiasm of the sensible, in no way restrains the fools; thus in the ocean of published papers that His Master's Voice has called into existence, a man can find whatever suits him, as long as he is not overly concerned about the truth.

The fate of a single person can mean many things, the fate of several hundred is hard to encompass; but the history of thousands, millions, means essentially nothing at all.

The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.

The fact is, however, that depending on support beyond the family has been the rule rather than the exception in American history, despite recurring myths about individual achievement and family enterprise.

A cultura ocidental já não tem qualquer mitologia viável para sustentá-la. Em qualquer cultura, o mito sempre atua com uma realidade maior, mais universal. As pessoas sempre tiveram necessidade de um modelo para servir de guia äs suas vidas coletivas e para dar significado à sua experiência individual.

Como é que uma sociedade, cujas instituições educacionais pregam uma abordagem fragmentada da vida e uma divisão distorcida do mundo, pode produzir um indivíduo saudável e criativo?

I like to think of dharma practice today as venturing into a world of imagination, one in which each individual seeks to articulate a vision in terms of the particular needs of his or her own situatio? Buddhism would then become less and less the preserve of an institution, and more and more an experience that is owned by ordinary people in ordinary communities.

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

I said no to having a beer. I once had a beer with my brother when I was twelve, and I just didn't like it. It's really that simple for me. [pp.37]

I just want you to know that you're very special and the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has.

Happiness is not this thing for other people. It is for you. It is for me. It is for all of us. We all get an ending, Whether or not it's happy is up to us.

I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

A society in which the individual feels responsible for his or her actions is more likely to work together and survive to spread its values.

This is known as the twins paradox, but it is a paradox only if one has the idea of absolute time at the back of one's mind. In the theory of relativity there is no unique absolute time, but instead each individual has his own personal measure of time that depends on where he is and how he is moving.

Na teoria da relatividade, não existe tempo absoluto único; em vez disso, cada indivíduo tem sua própria medida de tempo, que depende de onde ele se encontra e de como está se movendo.

Dalam teori relativitas tidak ada waktu mutlak yang unik; tiap individu punya pengukuran waktu sendiri yang bergantung kepada tempat dan cara kerjanya.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Love is hard to find, but love is one of a kind.

I don't think you can really define love

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.