Individuality Quotes

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger, security for happiness.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Who’s the man that says that we’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding?

No human being should learn from another. Each individual should develop his own powers to the uttermost, not try to imitate those of someone else.

Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an “individual,” has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

When an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he or they are inferior.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual — namely to You.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement.