Quotes About Individual

A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.

None doth ordinarily laugh alone? ordinarily no one; yet laughter sometimes masters men alone and singly when no one whatever is with them, if anything very ludicrous presents itself to their senses or mind.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

Just as the sun shines on all the trees and flowers as if each were the only one on earth, so does God care for all souls in a special manner.

Yet through virtuous living man is further ordained to a higher end, which consists in the enjoyment of God, as we have said above. Consequently, since society must have the same end as the individual man, it is not the ultimate end of an assembled multitude to live virtuously, but through virtuous living to attain to the possession of God.

You know, I guess one person can make a difference. 'Nuff said...

The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Appropriating" seems to have the same stress put on it in relating the individual to the world through the ownership of property as "belief has in relating the individual to the world through the acquisition and power of knowledge.

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.

Freud (1921), without referring to the general systems implications of his assertion, spelled out this mechanism clearly: ". . . the individual gives up his ego ideal and substitutes for it the group ideal embodied in the leader" (page 78, Group Psychology).

we sometimes have a choice among authorities, and we ought to look at this phenomenon within the experiment. It is possible that when different authorities simultaneously call for opposing lines of action, a person's own values will prevail and determine which authority he follows. Or

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

Happiness is a private good, justice a public good.

Tales momentos dramáticamente concentrados, tales momentos preñados de fatalidad, en los que una decisión destinada a persistir a lo largo de los tiempos se comprime en una única fecha, en una única hora y a menudo en un solo minuto, son raros tanto en la vida del individuo como en el curso de la Historia.

One cannot save the individual in the world, one can only defend the individual in oneself. The spiritual man's highest achievement is always freedom, freedom from people, from opinions, from things, freedom to himself.

And only decades later, when roof and walls fell in upon us, did we realize that the foundations had long since been undermined and that together with the new century the decline of individual freedom in Europe had begun.

Geburtstag ist ja Tag, wo man an sich denkt. (... Çünkü doÄŸum günü, insan?n kendi üzerinde düÅŸündüÄŸü bir gündür.)

como advertencia para otras generaciones, redacta en esos días de soledad su última obra, al mismo tiempo la más grande, De officiis, la enseñanza de las obligaciones que el hombre independiente, el hombre moral, ha de cumplir frente a sí mismo y frente al Estado.

Que a la larga no se puede defender la libertad de las masas, sino únicamente la propia, la libertad interior.

We certainly did—I do not deny it—have immeasurably more individual freedom, and we did not just welcome that, we made use of it. But as Friedrich Hebbel once nicely put it, "Sometimes we have no wine, sometimes we have no goblet." Both are seldom granted to one and the same generation; if morality allows a man freedom, the state tries to remould him. If the state allows him freedom, morality will try to impose itself.

The main reason I like UFC is not just the martial arts aspect, but it's about one person against the other person. It's about being able to test yourself with the truth.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.