INDIVIDUALITY QUOTES IV

quotations about individuality

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

CARL JUNG

The Undiscovered Self


We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

HERMANN HESSE

Narcissus and Goldmund


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

ARTHUR KOESTLER

Darkness at Noon


It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

ERIC HOFFER

Reflections on the Human Condition


I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

LIBBA BRAY

A Great and Terrible Beauty


Individuality is concrete and essential; it imports ethical being; it implies the possession of all our powers, thoughts, qualities, opinions, standards, values, so that we are determined by ourselves, not by society.

JAMES LINDSAY

"The Ethical Value of Individuality", Ethics, Volume 30


Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

The American Democrat


Individuality is unaccountable surplus.

THOMAS C. HELLER

Reconstructing Individualism


Individuality is the expression of the uniqueness of every soul and the sublime manifestation of its evolution.

AVIKAL COSTANTINO

Without a Mask


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

Human Nature and the Social Order


The individual is the last and irreducible element of reality.

JAMES LINDSAY

"The Ethical Value of Individuality", Ethics, Volume 30


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

Harper's, May 1941


The white sunlight of God's truth falls through the stained glass window of the human brain and takes the color of our individuality.

FRANCES WILLARD

Address to Woman's National Council, February 22, 1891


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

DR. SEUSS

attributed, Awaken Your Magic

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