Quotes About Individual

It is a paradox that the more egalitarian society becomes, the more important an individual's genes will be. Where opportunity is completely open – should a child's background ever become entirely irrelevant in their attainment – innate advantages will still create division.

Für sich selbst eine Ausnahme zu machen ist natürlich die Regel.

Plato was suspicious of writing which seems to remove knowledge from the present moment of the individual and lodge it elsewhere, in books, which are inert and cannot defend themselves against fools.

One ay the nicest cunts ye could hope tae meet.

How could he have been so stupid, so blind? David pictured after Goliath could be no one but the biblical David, a special individual. He was not content to portray one man; he was seeking universal man, Everyman, all of whom,from the beginning of time, had faced a decision to strike for freedom

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

But emotion had come upon him after all. Not for fifty billion people. What in Time did he care for fifty billion people? There was just one. One person.

It is a mistake," he said, "to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.

An individual life is one thread in the tapestry and what is one thread compared to the whole?

It is as much my job to prevent harm to mankind as a whole as yours is to prevent harm to man as an individual.

Psychohistory was the quintessence of sociology; it was the science of human behavior reduced to mathematical equations. The individual human being is unpredictable, but the reactions of human mobs, Seldon found, could be treated statistically.

We were never under any delusions as to which was more important, an individual or humanity.

Es un error —comenzó— suponer que la opinión pública quiere que se proteja el medioambiente o que les salven la vida y que, por tanto, se mostrarían muy agradecidos ante cualquier idealista que luche por conseguir esos objetivos. Lo que el público quiere es bienestar individual.

Es sorprendente que una colección de declaraciones que son individualmente ciertas puedan usarse, combinadas, para conseguir un resultado que no se hubiera logrado con la verdad.

They'll adjourn the trial and try to come to a private agreement with me." "How do you know?" Seldon said, "I'll be honest. I don't know. It depends on the Chief Commissioner. I have studied him for years. I have tried to analyze his workings, but you know how risky it is to introduce the vagaries of an individual in the psychohistoric equations. Yet I have hopes.

Now how I play a part, as an individual, in the foreseen course of history, I don't know. Perhaps I have no definite part, since the Plan leaves individuals to indeterminacy and free will. But I am important and they—they, you understand—may at least have calculated my probable reaction. So I distrust my impulses, my desires, my probable reactions.

Ese era el peligro del terrorismo: la astucia de un solo individuo camuflado en la multitud contra la fuerza titánica de la nación más poderosa del mundo.

You are an exceptional man, and it's not just my senility speaking, half the country would agree with me, and the other half doesn't count.

No es personal, cada uno es responsable de sus sentimientos y la vida no es justa».

Gerald G. Jampolsky, famoso psiquiatra y autor de más de veinte best sellers sobre psicología y filosofía, la aptitud para ser feliz está influenciada en un 45 % por genes y en un 15 % por las circunstancias, lo cual significa que el 40 % restante lo determinamos cada uno

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

No man can have society upon his own terms.

Biography is the only true history.