Individual Quotes - Page 38

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in most circumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority.

The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.

Capitalism is supposedly free enterprise. Supposedly about the free individual. But capitalism itself is so massive that the guy on the street gets caught in paying rent, taxes, and he doesn't own himself at all.

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

I think there’s something really sexy about being funny and being quirky and weird. I think we’re in a generation where we’re accepting weirdness and individuality, and I think that’s the most important part.

We are the universe pretending to be individuals.

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

nonviolence first changes the individual.