27 quotes found
“Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”
“The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.”
“A memory is made up of pieces of information taken in and processed by the brain in a way that is unique to each individual.”
“Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contente...”
“For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on...”
“Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importan...”
“Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have. It's the individual.”
“Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does...”
“Life only remains complex with the individual perspective. Individual perspective cannot think beyond itself while life has to consider the perspective of each and every individual.”
“In a justly ordereduniverse, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.”
“There's something I would like to understand. And I don't think anyone can explain it. . . There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's ...”
“Everyone tells us to be one in a million... What they don't tell us is that being one in a million also means being one against a million.”
“This is the age of the individual and there is no reason to believe that this focus of mankind is likely to change in the foreseeable future. Hence, the mission is to put individualism inside a wid...”
“We live in an era that sleeping with an individual is easier than loving.”
“By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual.”
“He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.”
“History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.”
“The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.”
“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”
