Individuality

(134 votes)   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

Andy Warhol
1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker

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(244 votes)   My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(204 votes)   Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

Marcus Valerius Martial
40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist

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(191 votes)   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
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(187 votes)   Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(173 votes)   The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(131 votes)   Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(129 votes)   The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.

Japanese Proverbs
Sayings of Japanese Origin

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(118 votes)   Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

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(114 votes)   A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(91 votes)   What is wanted -- whether this is admitted or not -- is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(86 votes)   A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations.

Milan Kundera
1929-, Czech Author, Critic

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(81 votes)   A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(81 votes)   It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon
1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher

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(77 votes)   No one can transcend their own individuality.

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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