Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg Simmel

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

Georg Simmel

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Juliette Lewis

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

John Lydon

Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!

John Banville

I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.

Lascelles Abercrombie

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Richard Thompson

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

Walt Whitman

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.

Sasha Alexander

I don't know that you can compare it to another show because each show has its own individuality.

Sarah Vowell

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Rodney Mullen

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

Rudolf Steiner

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Shunryu Suzuki

Each of us must make our own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

Shannon Tweed

I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

Stan Getz

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

Sophie Swetchine

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

Soren Kierkegaard

An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.

Tadashi Yanai

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

Tom G. Palmer

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

Josiah Royce

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.

Simone de Beauvoir

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

Walt Disney

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

William Butler Yeats

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

William Ellery Channing

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.