Individual Quotes

The ocean stands for God, the sole substance, and individual beings are like waves - which are modes of the sea. Each wave has its own shape that it holds for a certain time, but the wave is not separate from the sea and cannot be conceived to exist independently of it. Of course, this is only a metaphor; unlike an infinite God, an ocean has boundaries, and moreover the image of the sea represents God only in the attributes of extension. But maybe we can also imagine the mind of God - that is to say, the infinite totality of thinking - as like the sea, and the thoughts of finite beings as like waves that arise and then pass away.

~ Clare Carlisle

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. He enters into a labyrinth, he multiplies a thousandfold the dangers which life in itself already brings with it; not the least of which is that no one can see how and where he loses his way, becomes isolated, and is torn piecemeal by some minotaur of conscience. Supposing such a one comes to grief, it is so far from the comprehension of men that they neither feel it, nor sympathize with it. And he cannot any longer go back! He cannot even go back again to the sympathy of men!

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We live in an era that sleeping with an individual is easier than loving.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives.

~ Julianne Davidow

The website is like the person face, it says a lot of about a one individual.

~ Deyth Banger

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

~ Franz Grillparzer

The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this 'Damned Thing' into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into their slots.

~ Robert Anton Wilson

Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of sh*t and f*ck. (Tolerance zero)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded by the evolutionary invention of sexual reproduction came with a price—death of the individual.

~ Richard J. Borden

Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or you? Who will protect and teach your children to seek truth? A textbook committee, an education bureaucrat, or you? Did a commission of wise men stop the Holocaust? Did a committee of Congress end Jim Crow? No. In each case, the work was done by individuals who would not abide convenient lies. They saw injustice and they called it out. They saw their nation wage war against a single group and they said “not in my name.” They didn’t wait for the conventions of society to catch up to God’s laws. They pushed. They pressed. And they were victorious.

~ Glenn Beck

It was becoming more and more evident that Salem was a town that celebrated individuality, a real live-and-let-live kind of place. Melody felt a gut punch of regret. Her old nose would have fit in here.Look! She pointed at the multicolored car whizzing by. Its black door were from a Mercedes coupe, the white hood from a BMW; the silver trunk was Jaguar, the red convertible top was Lexus, the whitewall tires were Bentley, the sound system was Bose, and the music was classical. A hood ornament from each model dangled from the rear view mirror. Its license plate appropriately read MUTT.That car looks like a moving Benton ad.Or a pileup on Rodeo drive. Candace snapped a picture with her iPhone and e-mailed to her friends back home. They responded instantly with a shot of what they were doing. It must have involved the mall because Candace picked up her pace and began asking anyone under the age of fifty where the cool people hung out.

~ Lisi Harrison

I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.

~ Margaret Rutherford

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

~ Albert Einstein

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

~ Orhan Pamuk

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

~ Aldous Huxley

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

~ Maya Lin

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

~ Napoleon Hill

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

~ Scott Mccloud

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

~ Ken Olsen

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

~ Damon Galgut

Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

~ Yotam Ottolenghi

By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual.

~ Julie Andrews

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

~ Isaac Asimov

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

~ Chester Bennington

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

~ Julian Casablancas

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.

~ Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

~ Stephen Gardiner

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

~ William Godwin

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.

~ Jean Piaget

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

~ Robert Johnson

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

~ Peter L. Berger

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

~ William Thomas Stead

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

~ Lester B. Pearson

God enters by a private door into every individual.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

~ Jane Roberts

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

~ Angela Davis

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

~ Alex Berenson

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

~ Ben Carson

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

~ Emmanuel Macron