“Are you complete in yourself?” (The root) answers, “No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves and I shall die.” So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject. The details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual.
By your own soul, learn to live And if men thwart you take no heed. If men hate you have no care. Sing your song, dream your dream, Hope your hope and pray your prayer.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
Men are born equal but they are also born different.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
