Quotes About Individual

I think often people come to the conclusion that life is meaningless because that's a better conclusion to come to than the reverse; because if life is meaningless, well then, who cares what you do? But if life is meaningful - if what you do matters... then everything you do matters. And that puts a terrible responsibility on the individual. And I think that people are generally unwilling to bear that.

The "natural" human tendency to respond to the stranger, the strange idea and the creative individual with fear and aggression can be more easily comprehended, once it is understood that these diverse phenomena share categorical identity with the "natural disaster.

deceitful, inauthentic individual existence is the precursor to social totalitarianism.

Ressentiment8—hostile resentment—occurs when individual failure or insufficient status is blamed both on the system within which that failure or lowly status occurs and then, most particularly, on the people who have achieved success and high status within that system.

In a crisis, the inevitable suffering that life entails can rapidly make a mockery of the idea that happiness is the proper pursuit of the individual. On the radio show, I suggested, instead, that a deeper meaning was required. I noted that the nature of such meaning was constantly re-presented in the great stories of the past, and that it had more to do with developing character in the face of suffering than with happiness.

through the elevation and development of the individual, and through the willingness of everyone to shoulder the burden of Being and to take the heroic path. We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world. We must each tell the truth and repair what is in disrepair and break down and recreate what is old and outdated.

Viktor Frankl, the psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor who wrote the classic Man's Search for Meaning, drew a similar social-psychological conclusion: deceitful, inauthentic individual existence is the precursor to social totalitarianism.

Espero que estas reglas y las explicaciones que las acompañan ayuden a la gente a entender lo que ya sabe: que el alma de cualquier individuo ansía de forma eterna el heroísmo del auténtico Ser y que la voluntad de asumir esa responsabilidad equivale a la decisión de vivir una vida llena de significado.

Me?utim, sama tragedija (shva?ena kao proizvoljna grubost društva i prirode, nasuprot ranjivosti pojedinca) nije jedini - možda ?ak ni prvenstveni - izvor patnje. Treba uzeti u obzir i problem zla. Svijet je ?vrsto protiv nas, to je sigurno, ali ?ovjekova nehumanost prema ?ovjeku nešto je još gore.

Nuestros duramente conseguidos métodos adaptativos luchan por dominar, a menudo de forma violenta, en un individuo dado, entre individuos dentro de sociedades, y entre sociedades. Por tanto, se suscita el problema de la organización.

It's also not for the best that all human corruption is uncritically laid at society's feet. That conclusion merely displaces the problem, back in time.

Y'know what happened in the Soviet Union, was that it actually became illegal to suffer. And I'm really serious about that, because, y'know, if the system is working, then everything's ok with you... and if everything is not okay with you.. well, is that your fault, or the systems fault? Well it's not the goddamn systems fault. Then it's your fault. Then you don't get to suffer. And that's what happened in the Soviet Union.

the willingness of the individual to stand up for him or herself protects everyone from the corruption of society.

In a crisis, the inevitable suffering that life entails can rapidly make a mockery of the idea that happiness is the proper pursuit of the individual. On the radio show, I suggested, instead, a deeper meaning was required. I noted that the nature of such meaning was constantly re-presented in the great stories of the past, and that it had more to do with developing character in the face of suffering than with happiness.

There is a responsibility that everyone can take up: we need to decide if we are going to collectively and individually tilt the world towards heaven or tilt it towards hell.

Todos tenemos que asumir la máxima responsabilidad posible a nivel individual, de la sociedad y del mundo. Todos tenemos que decir la verdad, arreglar lo que está deteriorado y destruir y recrear lo que se ha quedado desfasado. Es así como podemos y debemos reducir el sufrimiento que envenena el mundo. Eso es pedir mucho. Es pedirlo todo.

Gender is constructed, but an individual who desires gender re-assignment surgery is to be unarguably considered a man trapped in a woman's body (or vice versa).

Rules? More rules? Really? Isn't life complicated enough, restricting enough, without abstract rules that don't take our unique, individual situations into account?

My dream placed me at the centre of Being itself, and there was no escape. It took me months to understand what this meant. During this time, I came to a more complete, personal realization of what the great stories of the past continually insist upon: the centre is occupied by the individual.

The individual is molded by the social world. But social institutions are molded, too, by the requirements of the individuals who compose them.

Gender is constructed, but an individual who desires gender re-assignment surgery is to be unarguably considered a man trapped in a woman's body (or vice versa). The fact that both of these cannot logically be true, simultaneously, is just ignored

For Nietzsche and Dostoevsky alike, freedom—even the ability to act—requires constraint. For this reason, they both recognized the vital necessity of the dogma of the Church. The individual must be constrained, moulded—even brought close to destruction—by a restrictive, coherent disciplinary structure, before he or she can act freely and competently.

Does anything other than the axiomatic acceptance of the divine value of the individual make slavery a self-evident wrong?

All these thinkers, all centrally concerned with pathology both individual and cultural, came to the same conclusion: lies warp the structure of Being. Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.