Individuality Quotes - Page 9

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.

Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Remember...that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted,or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.