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.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
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.
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; she never produces classes.
Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; – and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions […]
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
