Individuality Quotes - Page 30

• How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

  Christina Baldwin

  Memories, Maps, Remember

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.68, M. Evans

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• I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless facts, has the right to claim general acceptance. Every people, like every person, is involuntarily that which it is and therefore has a right to be itself. Nationality is not a principle; it is a legitimate fact, just as individuality is. Every nationality, great or small, has the incontestable right to be itself, to live according to its own nature. This right is simply the corollary of the general principal of freedom.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Real, Acceptance, People

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• Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Pain, Moving

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• There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

  Lily Cole

  Creativity, Ideas, Clothes

  "Vivienne Westwood vs Lily Cole". Interview with Bertie Brandes, www.dazeddigital.com. December 16, 2013.

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• Individuality in dressing is not important to men. If they all look alike it means they haven't made a mistake.

  Rita Rudner

  Mistake, Mean, Men

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• As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

  Gloria Steinem

  Opposites, Anxiety, Mind

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• all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Struggle, People, Outsiders

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• I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

  Margaret Mead

  Growing Up, Stress, Book

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• One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Appreciation, Expression, Joy

  Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

  Anna Quindlen

  Pearls, Sometimes, Stereotype

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• The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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• But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Average, Brain

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.73, Penguin

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• There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Brother, Independent

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.105, Penguin

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• It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.

  Susan Sontag

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980”, p.351, Penguin UK

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• We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Motivational, Beautiful, Wisdom

  "Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition". Book by Charles Eisenstein, 2011.

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• In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Depressing, Kings, Humility

  "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 33, Journals 1A 68 (July 29, 1835), 1978.

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• Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more--an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Attitude, Children, Thinking

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• The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

  Coleman Barks

  Religious, Religion, Killing Each Other

  Coleman Barks (2010). “The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Country, Inspiration, Home

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. May 12, 2008.

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• In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.

  Mario Testino

  People, Want, Los Angeles

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• I don't think that there is one "authentic" element of American style to identity - it's about a sense of freedom, individuality, and embracing personal style. Fashion also has a bit of mystery, which is part of the allure, and yet anyone can partake.

  Thakoon Panichgul

  Fashion, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Teacher, Children

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• We are in an interesting place in the evolution in our community in the people want to be indistinguishable from heterosexuals. I love the individuality I see in our community.

  Kit Williamson

  People, Interesting, Community

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

  David Bohm

  Awareness, Ifs, Wholeness

  David Bohm's dialogue with Renee Weber, first published in the journal ReVision (1983), later published in Renee Weber "Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity (p. 30), 1986.

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• By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.

  Julian Huxley

  Moving, Book, Writing

  "The Individual in the Animal Kingdom" by Julian Huxley (1912) as quoted in Connie Barlow "From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences", 1991.

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