Quotes About Individualism

He mentioned that he didn't like Jack Kerouac either, but this wasn't quite true. "I don't like people who like Jack Kerouac," he clarified.

These hermits often wonder how the rest of the world can be so blind, not to notice what we're doing to ourselves. "I have become solitary," wrote the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "because to me the most desolate solitude seems preferable to the society of wicked men

Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man." Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "Wherever is the crowd is a common denominator of stench." Knight's best friend, Thoreau, believed that all societies, no matter how well intentioned, pervert their citizens. Sartre wrote, "Hell is other people.

we must come to realize that once we have kids, individualism is impractical and self-defeating.

ancient theories of justice start with virtue, while modern theories start with freedom. And

Chúng ta là nô l? c?a sá»± ham mu?n và khát khao c?a chính mình

It is the "gospel" of self, in which Jesus dies to make you into a bigger and better you, a "gospel" in which God is here to serve you and help you fulfill your dreams, and where the measure of all things is not how God feels about it but how you feel about it (or how it makes you feel).

My position is that Rand doesn't have all the right answers, but she does have all the right questions

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Even reason is individualized, and becomes merely the reasoning of an individual without power or authority to oblige acceptance by others: to convince a man is not to enjoy a common understanding with him, but to displace his reason by yours.111

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

Now I want you to consider: any legal adult here can do anything he wishes with the only restriction being that no one else gets hurt.

Y todas las teorías de la libertad, desde Gide a Sartre, no son sino inmoralidades concebidas por solteros irresponsables.

Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.

the word humanism made me want to vomit

Joissakin yhteiskunnissa kysytään ensin, onko hän naimisissa ja onko hänellä lapsia; meidän yhteiskunnassamme ihmiseltä kysytään ensimmäiseksi ammattia. Länsimaisen ihmisen määrittää hänen paikkansa tuotantoketjussa, ei niinkään status suvunjatkajana.

liberal individualism triumphed as long as it undermined intermediate structures such as nations, corporations, castes, but when it attacked that ultimate social structure, the family, and thus the birthrate, it signed its own death warrant; Muslim dominance was a foregone conclusion).

Estoy en el sistema liberal como un lobo en un descampado

Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq

Each individual, however, can produce in himself a sort of cold revolution, by moving for a while outside the flow of information and advertising. This is quite simple: it has never been so easy to adopt an aesthetic position towards the world: you just need to step aside.'26 Suspend the will, be aware of the gap, actively practise being out of sync: Schopenhauer, now and forever. Agathe Novak-Lechevalier

Zoals het mooie Franse woord 'ménage' aangeeft, dat zowel 'huishouden' als 'zuinigheid' betekent, vertegenwoordigden het echtpaar en het gezin het laatste eilandje van primitief collectivisme binnen de liberale samenleving. De seksuele bevrijding leidde tot de vernietiging van die tussengemeenschappen, de laatste buffers tussen het individu en de markt. Dat vernietigingsproces gaat ook nu nog onverminderd door.

Je suis en système libéral Comme un loup dans un terrain vague, Je m'adapte relativement mal J'essaie de ne pas faire de vagues.

Aceptar la ideología del cambio continuo es aceptar que la vida de un hombre se reduzca estrictamente a su existencia individual, y que las generaciones pasadas y futuras ya no tengan ninguna importancia para él. Así vivimos, y actualmente tener un hijo ya no tiene sentido para un hombre