Individualism Quotes - Page 10

• The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Laughter, Humor, Ideas

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• Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

  Wendell Berry

  Party, Lines, Uniforms

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.84, Counterpoint

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• In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, Heart, Ambitious

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• Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Technology, Community

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• When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

  Joey Ramone

  Growing Up, Kids, Frustration

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• All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

  James F. Cooper

  Character, Greatness, Individuality

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Essay by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.

  Charlie Pierce

  Heart, Government, May

  "I Dream of Common Wealth" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. March 29, 2012.

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• We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life. Hence in all we do we always place man first and hence all our action is usually joint community oriented action rather than the individualism.

  Steven Biko

  Brother, Men, Community

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• [T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Confusing, Growth

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

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• We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

  John Dewey

  Practice, Liberty, Consciousness

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, James Gouinlock (2008). “John Dewey The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1925-1927: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and the Public and Its Problems”, p.160, SIU Press

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• I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Daughter, Strong, Class

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• Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people.

  Y. C. James Yen

  People, Experts, Practicals

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• The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

  Epictetus

  Respect, Philosophy, Tolerance

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• Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

  William Moulton Marston

  Taken, Personality, Important

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• In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Men, Differences, Affair

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.80, Anza Publishing

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• Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Taken, Curiosity, Astonishment

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

  Erika Slezak

  Jobs, Personality, Gatekeepers

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• If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

  Ernst Mach

  Dream, Importance, Connected

  Ernst Mach (1914). “The Analysis of Sensations, and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists.

  Kenny Smith

  Self, Rebel, Would Be

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• All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

  Jerry Garcia

  Knows, Ifs

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• It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, History, Age

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.336, Penguin

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• Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

  Ayn Rand

  Expression, Political, Intellectual

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• Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

  Johan Huizinga

  Philosophical, Culture, Systematic

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• I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.

  Maxine Waters

  Heart, Winning, Thinking

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• Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.

  Paul Tillich

  Character, Self, Opposites

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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