Quotes About Individual

Freud and Jung, with their intense focus on the autonomous individual psyche, placed too little focus on the role of the community in the maintenance of personal mental health.

But most importantly, it means denial of the necessity for courageous individual confrontation with Being. What is going to save you? The totalitarian says, in essence, "You must rely on faith in what you already know." But that is not what saves. What saves is the willingness to learn from what you don't know. That is faith in the possibility of human transformation. That is faith in the sacrifice of the current self for the self that could be.

It has been said that every individual is the conscious or unconscious follower of some influential philosopher.

Once having understood Hell, researched it, so to speak—particularly your own individual Hell—you could decide against going there or creating that. You could aim elsewhere.

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.

Nietzsche, for his part, posited that individual human beings would have to invent their own values in the aftermath of God's death. But this is the element of his thinking that appears weakest, psychologically:

The beneficence of the world manifests itself to those who live properly. That's better than bread. That's better than the money that will buy bread. Thus Christ, the symbolically perfect individual, overcomes the first temptation.

Follow what you're interested in, yet, it will take you over to adversity and then it will transform you from a citizen into an individual and then the doors will open again and at that point, you're strong enough to have your life.

Humanity, in toto, and those who compose it as identifiable people deserve some sympathy for the appalling burden under which the human individual genuinely staggers; some sympathy for subjugation to mortal vulnerability, tyranny of the state, and the depredations of nature.

the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine Being,

La doctrina cristiana elevó el alma individual, colocando al esclavo, al dueño, al plebeyo y al noble en una posición de igualdad metafísica, convirtiéndolos en iguales ante Dios y la ley.

Don't underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being.

There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.

Has dado vida a una insólita fantasía, querido. –No, lo único que he hecho ha sido recuperar a un ser humano.

For death is personal only for the person itself, that is to the extent it is accepted, embraced, it can be personal for him, and for only.

Cuando alguien nos pregunta qué somos en política o, anticipándose con la insolencia que pertenece al estilo de nuestro tiempo, nos adscribe a una, en vez de responder, debemos preguntar al impertinente qué piensa él que es el hombre y la naturaleza y la historia, qué es la sociedad y el individuo, la colectividad, el Estado, el uso, el derecho. La política se apresura a apagar las luces para que todos estos gatos resulten pardos

Lo especifico, lo constitutivo de la opinión colectiva es que su existencia no depende de que sea o no aceptada por un individuo determinado.

A soberania do indivíduo não qualificado, do indivíduo humano genérico e enquanto tal, passou de idéia ou ideal jurídico que era, a ser um estado psicológico constitutivo do homem médio.

Deben ser rigurosamente excluidas de la dirección educativa todas las influencias políticas y dogmáticas. Las primeras corrompen la moral de los educadores y rebajan el nivel de la enseñanza; las segundas conspiran contra la libertad de pensar y tienden a invadir el fuero del conciencia individual.

We must win when we deserve it, by elevating reason and the dignity of the individual, loving justice and the good and the great, even dying for it.

I honour the father for the merit of his son, but I don't honour the son because of the father. Let everyone be rewarded or punished because of what he himself does, not what others do.

The mass is all which sets no value on itself??good or ill??based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everything" ... The mass crushes beneath it everything which is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.

Woven of fad and fancy, commerce and technology, war and revolution, freedom and necessity, our individual histories testify to the singular but crooked paths along which we traveled to the present.

An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.