Individual - Individuality Quotes

Each man is led by his own liking.

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would-be-sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.

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.