An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.
Individuality is freedom lived.
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
Man may purposely, consciously choose for himself even the harmful and the stupid, even the stupidest thing… it preserves for us the most important and most precious thing – our personality, our individuality.
No man should part with his individuality to become another. No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men into one mould.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain. My friend, I’ll say it clear. I’ll state my case of which I’m certain. I’ve lived a life that’s full. I’ve traveled each and every highway. But more, much more than this, I did it my way.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
I feel ill at ease with that little word ‘We.’ No man is at one with another, you see. Behind all agreement lies something amiss. All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.
