Famous Quotes - Tags - Individuality

  • A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no... More
  • Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the... More
  • America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all... More
  • Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how... More
  • But my mind (yours)
    has its peculiar ego-centric
    personal approach
    to the eternal... More
  • Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in... More
  • Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all. More
  • Each child has his own individual expressions to offer to the world. That expression can take... More
  • Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. More
  • Each man must have his “I;” it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find... More
  • Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on... More
  • From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are... More
  • If a child is “free of neurotic symptoms” but values his freedom from fear so highly that he... More
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different... More
  • In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is... More
  • In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each... More
  • In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum. More
  • Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of... More
  • It is neither possible nor desirable to be always attuned to the moods of children because this... More
  • It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations—past and... More
  • Just as Michelangelo saw the “David” in the raw, unformed block of marble before he struck it... More
  • Less than five hundred souls inhabit the three quaint streets and the few narrow by-lanes and... More
  • Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had... More
  • Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first... More
  • Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln,... More
  • More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man... More
  • No parent should strive to be like another; just like our children, each of us is unique. And... More
  • Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. More
  • O, woman! blinded by custom, look forth upon the world with your own eyes, and see ... things as... More
  • Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely... More
  • Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and... More
  • Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act... More
  • Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter,... More
  • Remember...that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can... More
  • Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his... More
  • Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when... More
  • She is so naked and singular.
    She is the sum of yourself and your dream.
    Climb her like a... More
  • Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one’s own way at all hazards. More
  • The artist’s personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own... More
  • The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. More
  • The extent to which a parent is able to see a child’s world through that child’s eyes depends... More
  • The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not... More
  • The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. More
  • The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes,... More
  • The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her... More
  • The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. More
  • The parent must not give in to his desire to try to create the child he would like to have, but... More
  • The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human... More
  • The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire... More
  • The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our... More
  • There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own... More
  • There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about... More
  • Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a... More
  • We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from... More
  • What is wanted—whether this is admitted or not—is nothing less than a fundamental remolding,... More
  • What strikes many twin researchers now is not how much identical twins are alike, but rather how... More
  • Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be... More
  • Why runners make lousy communists. In a word, individuality. It’s the one characteristic all... More
  • You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect... More

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