I Quotes
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“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“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.”
“Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.”
“Individual security bargains may be located by the process of security analysis practically at any time. They can be bought with good overall results at all periods except when the general market itself is clearly in a selling range for investors. They show up to best advantage during the years in which the market remains in a relatively narrow and neutral area.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.”
“Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.”
Source: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
“Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.”
Source: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
“Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.”
“Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.”
“Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality”
“Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.”
“Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to diminish the majorities mediocrity.”
“Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.”
Source: The Proper Study of Mankind ...: An Inquiry Into the Science of Human Relations
“Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
“Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.”
“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.”
“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. If one colony member devotes its life to service over marriage, the individual is of benefit to the society, even though it does not have personal offspring. A soldier going into battle will benefit his country, but he runs a higher risk of death than one who does not. An altruist benefits the group, but a layabout or coward who saves his own energy and reduces his bodily risk passes the resulting social cost to others.”
“Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms”
“Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.”
“Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.”
“Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity”
Source: From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place
“Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.”
“Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)
“Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.”
“Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights”
“Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.”
“Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“Individualism is important - having a real voice, not just references. I have great respect for the young designers who want to go their own way and try to be a little entrepreneurial, like Thomas Tait today.”
“Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.”
“Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.”
Source: Writings on religion
“Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.”
“Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.”
Source: The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions
“Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.”
“Individualisten sind die besseren Teamworker – wenn sie die nötigen Freiheiten haben.”
“Individualists and collectivists both have been wronged by the government, and we all maintain (consciously or subconsciously) a list of the ways our lives have been diminished by its bureaucracies and actions. One of the differences between the collectivists and the individualists is that those wrongs are front and center for the individualists, whereas the collectivists are blind to those wrongs, or they excuse those wrongs, or they forgive those wrongs. "Use us," the collectivists say, while they throw not only themselves into the bottomless pit that is the Administrative State, but everybody else too.”
“Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they can shake the heart with what they do, is the key!”
“Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.”
Source: Rediscovering America's Values
“Individuality in dressing is not important to men. If they all look alike it means they haven't made a mistake.”
“Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.”
“Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage).”
“Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps rather than stampeding after some self-assertive bell-wether.”
Source: Mental Chemistry
“Individuality is but another act of segregation. We need instead learn the process of Individuation. One is to know thyself merely to be a single brick within the wall of mass creation and group consciousness.”
“Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you choose not to be involved in any communities, making sure you keep a safe distance from people in your life. I’m not recommending isolation. Science, psychology, and religion all suggest long term isolation is dangerous and unhealthy.”
“Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.”
“Individuality is founded in feeling”
Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience
“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience
“Individuality is freedom lived.”
Source: Occasions and protests