Quotes about Individuality

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

The Master said, "The gentleman harmonizes [he] without being an echo. The petty man echoes [tong] and does not harmonize.

You shouldnt worry about what people think of you because they dont do it that often