Quotes about Individuality
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
- William Faulkner
No man knows himself as an original.
- Washington Allston
I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
- Dolly Parton
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.
- George Bernard Shaw
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
- Marcus Aurelius
You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.
- Paulo Coelho
If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.
- Brigham Young
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
- Elie Wiesel