Individual Quotes - Page 47

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

An individual human existence should be like a river

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism - with a separation of economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as a separation of state and church.

The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it was the only system that could make freedom, individuality and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves

We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

IN THE CINEMA A DIRECTOR EXPRESSES HIS INDIVIDUALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THROUGH HIS SENSE OF TIME, THROUGH RHYTHM. RHYTHM GIVES COLOUR TO A WORK BY DISTINGUISHABLE STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS. RHYTHM MUST ARISE NATURALLY IN A FILM, A FUNCTION OF THE DIRECTOR'S INNATE SENSE OF LIFE AND COMMENSURATE WITH HIS QUEST FOR TIME.

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

I've got a soft spot for true individuals.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.