Explore Quotes on Individuality

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

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

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

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

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

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.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.