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.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
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.
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
“No man,” proclaimed Donne, “is an island”, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other’s tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, “made into an island”) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of […]
Voyage upon life’s sea, To yourself be true, And, whatever your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.
