When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
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.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Whoever saw one physician use another’s prescription, without taking something away or adding something to it?[Qui a jamais vu un médecin confirmer tout simplement l’ordonnance d’un confrère, sans y rien ajouter ou retrancher?]
Who is it that says most? which can say more Than this rich praise, that you alone are you?
When an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he or they are inferior.
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
