The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
I won’t tell you that the world matters nothing, all the world’s voice, or the voice of society. They matter a great deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world […]
A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
It is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings.
I believe in individualism… up to the point where the individualist starts to operate at the expense of society.
It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole… that above all the unity of a nation’s spirit […]
