Quotes About Individual

La medicina de las especies se compromete en una atención renovada a lo individual, una atención cada vez más impaciente y menos capaz de soportar las formas generales de percepción, las lecturas apresuradas de esencia.

Freedom begins when each individual mind dares to liberate itself from the prison it created. We are free when the war in our heads is over.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true.

He looked to be a little over forty. Mouth somehow twisted. Clean-shaven. Dark-haired. Right eye black, left -for some reason- green. Dark eyebrows, but one higher than the other. In short, a foreigner.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations

Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?

Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of an individual's life.

The individual I is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.

J'en arrivai finalement à les croire, incapable que j'étais d'imaginer (c'était au-dessus de mon audace) que tous les autres pouvaient se tromper, que la Révolution elle-même, l'esprit du temps, se trompait, tandis que moi, individu, j'avais raison.

Observação importante: imitação não quer dizer falta de autenticidade, porque o indivíduo não pode deixar de imitar o que já teve lugar; por muito sincero que seja, não é mais do que uma reincarnação; por muito verdadeiro que seja, não é mais do que uma resultante das sugestões e das injunções emanadas do poço do passado.

Imitation does not mean lack of authenticity, for the individual cannot do otherwise and imitate what has already happened; sincere as he may be, he is only a reincarnation; truthful as he may be, he is only a sum of the suggestions and requirements that emanate from the well of the pass.

Imitatie betekent geen gebrek aan authenticiteit, want het individu kan niet anders dan imiteren wat al heeft plaats gevonden; hoe oprecht hij ook is, hij is slechts een resultante van de suggesities en aanmaningen die voortkomen uit de put van het verleden.

A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves

The family, rather than the individual, has always been and remains today the basic building block of our society, though its hold has clearly been weakening—one of the most unfortunate consequences of the growth of government paternalism.

Although these examples only scratch the surface, they illustrate the fundamental proposition that freedom is one whole, that anything that reduces freedom in one part of our lives is likely to affect freedom in the other parts.

led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.1

The government has no more right to tell me what goes into my mouth, including illegal drugs, than it has to tell me what comes out of my mouth.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

I love N.Y.C.! I cant think of any individual that hates New York.

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

The love of one individual is far more powerful than the hate of one million.