Individualism Quotes - Page 4

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

Who would you be but who you are?

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

We're facing a crisis that we have not provoked, yet we are the main victims of the greatest crisis since the 1930s. It's not been generated by factors external to the system, but by factors that are of the very essence of the system: exacerbated individualism, deregulation, competition, and so on.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life.