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.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
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 […]
This man is free from servile bonds Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all.
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 […]
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.
What I do object to about America is the herd thinking. There is no room for individuals in your country – and yet you are dedicated to saving the world for individualism.
When we leave people on their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless taskmaster from whose bondage there is no escape. The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
