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The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.
Hobbesian individualism;
Personal style is accepting who you are.
Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.
After all, what is an individual?
Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
Every human personality is the product of an innate drive to create something unique from one's raw individual experience.
It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.
We like to think that we value individuality, but all too often we admire one type of individual - the
It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education anddevelopment of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.
Each of us has his or her own distinct personality. But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific.
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.
You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
Individualistic cultures, which emphasise achievement over affiliation,
The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
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.
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
I'm an individual, and I have opinions.
I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.
Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of ... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.
Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.
She's the Sandwhich Lady."
"Excuse me?"
"She delivers sandwiches to the homeless."
"Really. I can't imagine her in such a role."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, she always seems so impulsive, so emotional. What's the word I'm searching for? So individualistic. Not tribal at all ...
More and more, it seems to me, modern individualism assumes the form of a desperate denial of the fact that, through mimetic desire, each of us seeks to impose his will upon his fellow man, whom he
Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.
You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.
I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.
Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.
Somebody
who's passionate about life and does
their own thing.
Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
I consider rugged individualism to be an exaggerated pretend posture of a person
struggling against emotional fusion. The differentiated person is always aware of others and the relationship system around him.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?
I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.
The French are very individualistic.
I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.
I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.
I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.
It's better to be individual than a clone of someone else.
Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.
The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality ... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent ...
I have a very independent spirit.
A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it."
An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.
Freedom and independence is my character.
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.
In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.
You know, very few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim they do, but they don't. They want to retain the invisibility of childhood anonymity forever. But that's not possible except in a police state. In an ordinary life, you have to become yourself.
Individual, what is most important is to insist on the vital need of combining certain sets of qualities,
[H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others.
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.
Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.
Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.
No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual ...
The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
On the individualist approach, society is not something above the individual to which he owes a duty - it is merely a group of individuals, each with his own dreams, goals and purposes.
We are unique individuals with unique experiences
As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms.
Everyone has something unique about them.
Define your uniqueness to define yourself.
If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.
If you wish to understand others you must intensify your own individualism. Why
Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don't work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it's easier to start doing what you want to do.
I am my own person.
Freedom and independence form my character.
A personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficult
to take chances in expressing our individuality.
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.
The average educated man possesses no real individuality. He is simply a manufactured article bearing the stamp of the maker.
There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.
The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.
Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in the world ... the division follows lines of real psychological cleavage. I do not offer it lightly. It has been the fruit of more than eighteen minutes of earnest reflection and research.
Individuality is the highest, deepest form of art.
It seems that, depending upon which side of the thesaurus-writer's gaze we sit, one's uniqueness can be deemed to be either eccentric or distinctive. Both, in my opinion, are good.
Everyone just wants to be like that Somebody else. Ironically, that Somebody wishes to just be like everyone else. If this is achieved, however, individuality is annihilated.
We are All Unique But Not Different..
What is an individual? Just a bit of life shot off from the one Life in the universe-just a bit of love and truth dropped on this globe, just as the globe itself was once a bit of light and heat dropped from the sun.
That which I think only according to the standard of my individuality is not binding on another; it can be conceived otherwise; it is an accidental, merely subjective view.
I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.
Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
The one thing she seems to aim at is Individuality; yet she cares nothing for individuals.8
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.
I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.
Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
The individual is the little conditioned, miserable, frustrated entity, satisfied with his little gods and his little traditions, whereas a human being is concerned with the total welfare, the total misery and total confusion of the world.
Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.
We are each unique, just like everyone else.Unique-- Bob Dailey