Quotes about Individuality

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans.

Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this specific individual human being alone before God, alone in this enormous exertion and this enormous accountability

The lyrical author is only concerned with his production, enjoys the pleasure of producing, often perhaps only after pain and effort; but he has nothing to do with others, he does not write in order that: in order to enlighten men or in order to help them along the right road, in order to bring about something; in short he does not write in order that.

His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.<3

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.