Quotes by Individuality The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads. Giuseppe Mazzini individuality earth men . . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million. Gilbert K. Chesterton individuality friendship two As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind. Gloria Steinem anxiety individuality opposites Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health. Gloria Steinem eating-disorder individuality special She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs. Graham Greene individuality dying memories In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic. Gregor Mendel individuality average science Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd. Hannah Whitall Smith crowds individuality At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. Harold Bloom poetic individuality needs The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life. H. G. Wells conflict ultimate individuality Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality. Heather King ice-cream diversity individuality Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts. Heinrich Heine individuality solitude mean I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear. Henrik Lundqvist individuality different way In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum. Friedrich Nietzsche morality individuality men I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition. Henri Matisse individuality independent feelings I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness? Henri Frederic Amiel adrift individuality cutting I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow. Henry Miller individuality artist america Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied. Henry Miller individuality men way Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. Howard Rheingold individuality goal art In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. Hermann Hesse individuality suffering flesh I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. Henry David Thoreau individuality fashion strength «56789101112131415»