Individuality Quotes - Page 7

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

Observe the masses and do the opposite

True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

Perfume is a note of woman's individuality. It is the last touch to her look.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.

Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.

Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.