Individuality Quotes

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, bec...

The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuali...

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must ha...

Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people t...

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manne...

Humanity is not an aggregate of individuals, a community of thinkers, each of whom is guaranteed fro...

You call me the unhuman," it might say to him, "and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because...

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject,"...

It is precisely when their interior worlds change shape that Bezukhov and Bolkonsky are confirmed as...

After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Ju...

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationshi...

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vis...

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vis...

Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken......

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of communi...

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our dispos...

Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have ab...

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ...

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and ...

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, ...

I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can...

Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it mean...

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual dev...

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They...

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn...

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poet...

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); geniu...

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These ar...

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a d...

Girls and women, in their new, particular unfolding, will only in passing imitate men's behavior and...

For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear th...

they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of...

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferab...

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole ...

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accom...

A man is known by the books he reads.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to hi...

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in...

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another ...

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When...

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love yo...

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

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each in...

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your ow...

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me ...

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an...

A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument hand...

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid...

Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her m...

Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her m...

Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her m...

Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her m...

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

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

And why, she began to ask, did she rage against individuals? Not individuals but institutions are th...

For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an elec...

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to...

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn't just one of your holiday games;You may think at fi...

We like to think of individuals as unique. Yet if this is true of everyone, then we all share the sa...

In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap...

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...

To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is a...

I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where ...

Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espio...

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is ...

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a str...

The complexity of the so-called individual that’s been praised for decades in America somehow has na...

I'm me," she whispered. "Me"Nel didn't know quite what she meant, but on the other hand she knew exa...

He recognized that need, in Odonian terms, as his "cellular function." the analogic term for the ind...

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else...

She could not have been born gray. Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not a...

When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happe...

What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody...

Why--?" he jerked his thumb in the direction of the young, "when they're so lovely--"She too looked ...

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary...

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the wo...

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angel...

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at leas...

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in...

I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you re...

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and ...

To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base....

When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself...

There could be something wrong with me because I see Negroes neither better nor worse than any other...