I like a view but I sit with my back turned to it.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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 […]
