Individuality Quotes - Page 7

• We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Im Sorry, Being Yourself, Work

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• The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

  Arthur Koestler

  Definitions, Multitudes, Divided

  Darkness at Noon (1941) (translation by Daphne Hardy)

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• The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

  Chuck Jones

  Animal, Individualism, Humans

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

  Edouard Vuillard

  School, Self, Want

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• Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Rocks, Feet

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• The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Sacred, Trouble, Social

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• I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

  Henri Matisse

  Independent, Feelings, Tradition

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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• Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

  Rajneesh

  Personality, Able, Given

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• No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Teamwork, Team Building

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• The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

  David Duchovny

  Trust, Keys, Expectations

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• I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

  Anne Sexton

  Who I Am, Personality, Imperfection

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• Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay but I cannot pretend anymore to be somebody else`... This decision and this declaration - this declaration of freedom, freedom from the weight of the crowd - gives birth to your natural being, to your individuality. Then you don`t need any mask. Then you can be simply yourself, just as you are. And the moment you can be just as you are, there is tremendous peace that passeth understanding.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Decision, Understanding

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• Never follow the crowd.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

  Brittany Finamore

  Motivational, Regret, Heart

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• Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

  Thomas More

  Emotional, Individualism, Source

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• Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Soul, Intellectual

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.103, Library of Alexandria

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• Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Tombstone, Inscriptions, Asks

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• In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

  Karl Marx

  Independent, Individualism, Persons

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.61, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1, 1931-1934.

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• Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

  Georges Bataille

  Self, Names, Upset

  Georges Bataille (1977). “Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo”, Arno Press

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• Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Doe, Bread

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

  Walt Whitman

  Conformity, Institutions, Inconsiderate

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• We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

  Mark Twain

  Principles, Protection, Cowardice

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.375, Courier Corporation

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

  Walt Whitman

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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• Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Years, May

  Eric Shanes, Andy Warhol (1991). “Warhol”, Gramercy Books

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