Quotes About Individual

I love statistics because they place what happens to a scrap of humanity, like me, on a worldwide scale.

Did he like celery?' 'Does anybody?

The photograph captured the man whole.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a right. There is only an up or down: up to man's age-old dream -- the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

La literatura nos hace formar parte del todo, y en el todo, el dolor individual parece que duele un poco menos. Pero además el sortilegio funciona porque, cuando el sufrimiento nos quiebra el espinazo, el arte consigue convertir ese feo y sucio daño en algo bello.

In any real democracy, magistracy isn't a benefit—it's a burdensome responsibility that can't fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

Every man is entitled to his own religious opinions; but no man – least of all a junior – has a right to thrust these down other men's throats

Anyone can be a cause of his or her own destruction, but no one can claim individual responsibility for having created a great good.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Shame comes from outside, but conscience must be a natural feeling that comes from a deep place inside an individual person.

Vendors still shivering in the still-cool air gathered around me, pushing their wares-chewing gum, biscuits, baby rattles, cigarettes, sold individually or by the pack. I didn't want anything, but they kept standing there; they had nothing else to do. A white man is such an anomaly, a foundling from another planet, that is it possible to stare at him with interest almost forever.

What ability there is in an individual may be measured by the yardstick of how far there is between his understanding and his will . What a person can understand he must also be able to force himself to will . Between understanding and willing is where excuses and evasions have their being.

Faith is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal

The public is a host, more numerous than all the peoples together, but it is a body which can never be reviewed, it cannot even be represented, because it is an abstraction. Nevertheless, when the age is reflective and passionless and destroys everything concrete, the public becomes everything and is supposed to include everything. And that again shows how the individual is thrown back upon himself.

The levelling process is the victory of abstraction over the individual. The levelling process in modern times, corresponds, in reflection, to fate in antiquity.

A crowd in its very concept is the untruth, by reason of the fact that it renders the individual completely impenitent and irresponsible, or at least weakens his sense of responsibility by reducing it to a fraction.

Although in this life one may find solace in the crowd from God's radical demands, "In eternity you will look in vain for the crowd. You will listen in vain to find where the noise and the gathering is, so that you can run to it." In actual fact, "For the Infinite One, there is no place, the individual is himself the place.

When the discoveries of possibility are honestly administered, possibility will discover all finitudes but idealize them in the shape of infinity, in anxiety overwhelm the individual, until the individual again overcomes them in the anticipation of faith.

The way of objective reflection turns the individual into something accidental, and thus turns existence into an indifferent, vanishing something.

Either the individual becomes a knight of faith by assuming the burden of the paradox, or he never becomes one.