Individuality Quotes

Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

~ James Joyce

Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become 'absorbed' into the deity but rather brought into communion with God through union with Christ thereby maintaining our unique individuality and personal identity

~ R. Alan Woods

I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.

~ David James Duncan

Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to be: usually we are nothing more than a single individual trait which leaps to the eye and determines the whole impression that we make.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.

~ Dave Eggers

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.

~ Nora Raleigh Baskin

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

~ John Maynard Keynes

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

~ R. Scott Bakker

I am not a number, I am a free man.

~ Patrick Mcgoohan

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

~ Harold Bloom

People need to learn how to take the role of leader out of God's hands.

~ Lionel Suggs

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

~ Neil Postman

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where might I be, if I were not here? Who, what, how could I be, if I were not me, if this outward appearance that is me did not encase me, separating my consciousness from that of others who are not me? An organism—a blind, rash, pitiful eruption of the insistent assertion of the will. Far better, really, if that will were to drift free in a night without time or space, than to languish in a prison cell lit only by the flickering, uncertain flame of the intellect.

~ Thomas Mann

Equality implies individuality.

~ Trey Anastasio

I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

~ Shannon Tweed

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

~ George Santayana

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

~ John Stuart Mill

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

~ Georg Simmel

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

~ Alex Grey