Quotes on Individuality

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

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

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.

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

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.

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