Quotes About Individualism

Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means that it is easy to slip up -there is always some injunction you are violating. But Islam has no religious establishment - no popes, no bishops - that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. As a result, the decision to oppose the state on the grounds that is insufficiently Islamic belongs to anyone who wishes to exercise it.

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

What once was moral is now, for us, aesthetic … What was social is now individual

BaÅŸkalar?yla iÅŸbirliÄŸi yapmak, birlikte hareket etmek, onlara baÄŸlanmak; hep metafiziksel aç?dan hastal?kl? bir itkinin ürünü bunlar. Bir bireye bahÅŸedilmiÅŸ olan ruh, baÅŸkalar?yla iliÅŸki kurmak uÄŸruna ödünç verilmemeli. Kutsal var olmak olgusu, yan yana var olmak gibi ÅŸeytani bir olguya teslim edilmemeli.

Nothing grates more on me than the vocabulary of moral intent and social responsibility.

What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

To go from the phantoms of faith to the ghosts of reason is merely to change cells. Art, if it frees us from the abstract idols of old, should also free us from magnanimous ideas and social concerns, which are likewise idols.

Em jogo estaria a seguinte tese: pode um homem, psicológica e espiritualmente, viver de um modo completamente autossuficiente, sem precisar de mais ninguém?

Colaborar, relacionarse, hacer cosas con otros es un impulso metafísicamente enfermizo. El alma que es dada al individuo no debe prestarse a sus relaciones con los demás. El hecho divino de existir no debe ser entregado al hecho satánico de coexistir.

Ce-mi pas? mie de oameni Sau de cei care sufer? ori se presupune c? sufer?? N-au decât s? fie ca mine- ÅŸi n-ar mai suferi. Tot r?ul pe lume vine din faptul c? ne îngrijor?m unul pentru cel?lalt, Indiferent dac? vrem s? facem bine sau r?u. Sufletul nostru,cerul ÅŸi p?mântul ne sunt de ajuns. A dori ÅŸi mai mult înseamn? a le pierde,a fi nefericit.

Se o que há de lixo moral e mental em todos os cérebros pudesse ser varrido e reunido, e com ele se formar uma figura gigantesca, tal seria a figura do comunismo, inimigo supremo da liberdade e da humanidade.

To dodge the rules and say useless things sums up the essentially modern attitude.

La única libertad que merece ese nombre es la de buscar nuestro propio bien, por nuestro camino propio, en tanto no privemos a los demás del suyo o les impidamos esforzarse por conseguirlo. Cada uno es el guardián natural de su propia salud, sea física, mental o espiritual. La humanidad sale más gananciosa consintiendo a cada cual vivir a su manera que obligándole a vivir a la manera de los demás» (John Stuart Mill, Sobre la libertad).

I hope you don't have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.

L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.

In the Matrix in which Americans live, nothing is ever their fault.

What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it's never their fault. They always like to blame somebody other than themselves for a failure.

I am in favor of economic freedom, but I am not a conservative.

Conservatives and individualists support policies that favor more freedom for individuals.

I separated ways from the American feminist movement when they became anti-sexual. I believe embracing sexuality is a part of what it means to be free.