Quotes on Individuality

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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.

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.