Quotes About Individual

Ahora se daba cuenta de que el genio de aquellos que habían redactado la Constitución consistía en prevenir la debilidad de carácter del hombre y la presencia constante del mal en el mundo y convertir la libertad individual en la realidad legal a la que el país tenía que volver una y otra vez.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities, and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account.

The meaning of life is something we answer with our own activities; there's no general answer. We determine what the meaning of it is. Meaning in the sense of significance, not in the sense of chair means this, but the significance of your life-- is something you create

The phrase itself, the American dream, was coined in the '30s basically in the heart of the Depression. Much of this framing was pointed at the need to keep the economy rumbling at a great pace when World War II ended. So one of the ways in which industry could keep going was to promulgate not collective consumption, but individual consumption.

Jonathan never takes anything personally; he always sees himself as a statistical reflection of a larger trend in society.

You can't blame yourself for being, Kirby.(...) You can't blame a tree for reaching for the sun or another for rotting from within. We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.

unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric – people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools

No memory is anything more than a personal choice.

The goal was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history. We, each of us, can take control of the world.

hedonic regression analysis to identify how markets valued individual attributes and how those attribute values changed over time.

Mi madre me enseñó que el mercado era una oscura y siniestra máquina que trituraba y devoraba cien destinos por cada individuo afortunado al que recompensaba

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, because in the end, whatever goes down, whatever you get up to, your triumphs and transgressions, nobody actually understands what it means except for you.

To build a House of Jerky is to triumph against the odds, to construct a nitrate-filled monument to possibility and individual perseverance. Dexter Choi was an outlaw. He faced down fate and flopped a full house.

One should not search for an abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment.

Por lo tanto, lo que importa no es el sentido de la vida en formulaciones abstractas, sino el sentido concreto de la vida de un individuo en un momento determinado.

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. These tasks, and therefore

O mundo está numa situação ruim. Porém tudo vai piorar ainda mais se cada um de nós não fizer o melhor que pode.

the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

Gordon W. Allport's book, The Individual and His Religion:

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment.

E]very human task is an eternal one and human progress is endless, an advance into infinity, toward a goal located in infinity. And even then it is a matter only of each individual's progress in his own personal history.

What does all this prove? What has come through to us from the past? Two things: everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there are, and everything depends on each person, through action and not mere words, creatively making the meaning of life a reality in his or her own being.

One should not search for an abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.