Quotes About Individualism

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.

I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.

I would never bring a flag on the summit. If somebody is climbing for a country he is not normal, he is sick.

Take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

Greed, we know, is at play in today's India. The 'me first' outlook is rampant.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

It is said to be the age of the first person singular

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

We should judge society starting with ourselves and our own minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The antidote to this abuse of formal government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.

Canadian atheist Kai Nielson said it well: We have not been able to show that reason requires the moral point of view, or that really rational persons unhood-winked by myth or ideology need not be individual egoists or classical amoralists. Reason doesn't decide here. The picture I have painted for you is not a pleasant one. Reflection on it depresses me. . . . Pure practical reason, even with a good knowledge of the facts, will not take you to morality.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew.

I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew.

Their character is built upon conventional morality. It leans on the social order. Mine stands free from everything artificial. Le They are bound in all sorts of conventions. They depend on life, which, in this connexion, is a historical fact surrounded by all sorts of restraints and considerations, a complex, organized fact open to attack at every point; whereas I depend on death, which knows no restraints and cannot be attached. My superiority is evident.

He had a good healthy sense of meum, and as little of tuum as he could help.

The Germans will be beaten in a few months. And Japan will be beaten a few months after that. If I were to give up my life now, it wouldn't be for my country. It would be for Cathcart and Korn. So I'm turning my bombsight in for the duration. From now on I'm thinking only of me.

Fuck my superiors,' I decided, when I saw that most of my superiors were not superior. Years later I read where Camus said that the only freedom we have is the freedom to say no. You ever read Camus?

Why,' swore Yossarian at him approvingly, 'you evil-eyed, mechanically-aptituded, disaffiliated son of a -----, did you walk around with anything in your cheeks?' 'I didn't,' Orr said, 'walk around with anything in my cheeks. I walked around with crab apples in my cheeks. When I couldn't get crab apples, I walked around with horse chestnuts. In my cheeks.