Individuality Quotes - Page 27

• The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

  Greg Bear

  Philosophy, Organization, Political

  Greg Bear (2016). “Far Thoughts and Pale Gods”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes sick people feel better and old men throw away their sticks and dance." Tshikona "brings peace to the countryside...." It is an example of the production of the maximum of available human energy in a situation that generates the highest degree of individuality in the largest possible community of individuals.

  John Blacking

  Music, Feel Better, Men

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• The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

  George Grosz

  Personality, Genius, Publicity

  George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”

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• Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and how she feels

  Donna Karan

  Clothes, Style, Use

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• Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there is no individuality. It may sound ridiculous to say so, but I believe each person is but a wave passing through space, ever-changing from minute to minute as it travels along, finally, some day, just becoming dissolved.

  Nikola Tesla

  Believe, Space, Soul

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself.
  I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound.

  Marcus Miller

  Names, Sound, France

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• Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Spiritual, Mean, Mindfulness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2016). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

  Paul Signac

  Fighting, Individualism, Anarchist

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• A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Self, Psychics, Two

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• I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.

  Andrew Solomon

  College, Self, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.660, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

  Louis Sullivan

  Design, Spirit, Individualism

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• To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies.

  Cornel West

  Struggle, Unique, Profound

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• I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

  Tony Hsieh

  Inspirational, Creativity, Views

  "Zappos Milestone: Q&A With Tony Hsieh". Interview with Jordan, footwearnews.com. May 4, 2009.

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• The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it was the only system that could make freedom, individuality and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

  Ayn Rand

  Practice, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Pursuit

  "Ayn Rand Reader".

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• The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

  Georg Simmel

  Individualism, Nervous, Psychological

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• To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Thinking, Self

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• I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.

  Paul Krassner

  Self, Conformity, Effects

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• It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

  Eric Kandel

  Nervous, Units, Plasticity

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• It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter will look around him . . . and finding everything good, will strive to communicate that feeling through a portrayal of the essentials of sunlight, or snow, or tree or tragic cloud, or human face, according to his power and individuality.

  J. E. H. MacDonald

  Writing, Men, Artist

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• The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive.

  Jane Smiley

  Ideas, Tolerance, Democracy

  Jane Smiley (2014). “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.129, Faber & Faber

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• If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away something precious: your individuality. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Dna, Names, Differences

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• So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Needs, Individualism, Copenhagen

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• Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

  John Grier Hibben

  Responsibility, Loss, Men

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• We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

  Mark Doty

  Long, Disappear, Ifs

  Mark Doty (2002). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

  Erich Auerbach

  Men, Individualism, Young

  Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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