T Quotes
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“The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.”
“The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.”
“The individual attributes of warmth and competence are often perceived to be negatively correlated. That doesn't mean they actually are, but that's how people perceive the world. So, cruel people, those who gave negative book reviews, for instance, were seen as less likeable but as more intelligent.”
“The individual becomes for himself what he is in himself through what he manifests for others.”
“The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.”
“The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.”
“The individual cannot exist on his/her own and the collectivism should respect freedom of conscience. My struggle is about the freedom of thought.”
“The individual cannot exist outside of the many spheres of the deeply interconnected webs of life”
Source: Voice of Reason
“The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.”
“The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.”
“The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.”
“The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”
“The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy.”
“The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.”
Source: General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology
“The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.”
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“The individual, floating, but held on a leash like a dog, like an eye popping out of its socket, hanging on the end of its optic nerve, scanning the horizon through 180 degrees but not sending back any images—a disembodied panoptical terminal, runaway organ of a species of mutants.”
Source: Cool memories
“The individual great spirit and great efforts create a great team.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
“The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”
“The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.”
“The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.”
“The individual... has no value for nature, and can have none, for infinite time, infinite space, and the infinite number of possible individuals therein are her kingdom. Therefore nature is always ready to let the individual fall, and the individual is accordingly not only exposed to destruction in a thousand ways from the most insignificant accidents, but is even destined for this and is led towards it by nature herself, from the moment that individual has served the maintenance of the species. In this way, nature quite openly expresses the great truth that only the Ideas, not individuals, have reality proper, in other words are a complete objectivity of the will.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“The individual has totally different interests from the society, because the society has no soul. The society is soulless. And if you become too much a part of the society, it will reduce your soul also to a non-entity. Beware, before you have lost your whole opportunity. Don't be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny.”
“The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.”
Source: The Discovery of Being
“The "individual" in applied postmodernism is something like the sum total of the identity groups to which the person in question simultaneously belongs.”
“The individual in the framework and in the service of his race, the race in the framework and in the service of God and of the laws of the divinity: those who will understand these things will win even though they are alone. Those who will not understand will be defeated.”
“The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from the rest of the world, so that his identity and autonomy are always in question.... He may not possess an over-riding sense of personal consistency or cohesiveness. He may feel more insubstantial than substantial, and unable to assume that the stuff he is made of is genuine, good, valuable. And he may feel his self as partially divorced from his body.”
“The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.”
“The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.”
“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase.”
“The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.”
Source: Autobiography of values
“The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.”
Source: The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul
“The individual is certainly a tiny thing in the eyes of the infinity, but just because one is tiny does not mean one is insignificant.”
“The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit.”
“The individual is drawn by [at least] two forces. First, the spirits desire of uniting with all spirits. Second, a mixture of survival, fear and mainly ego. Each state or government consists [currently] of individuals who may or may not be aware of their own [inner] imbalance - which directly [influence] within and through most of our efforts.
Moreover, the idea that machines are perfect and only humans make mistakes - who then, creates, the machines. If I am flawed and make mistakes, there is potential for voluntary or involuntary imperfections, exotic or not.
Too much spirituality can lead to inaction, and inaction can lead to devastation, Cosmos is not entirely peaceful, she has her gradients too.
Balance.”
“The individual is drawn by two forces. First, the spirits desire of uniting all spirits. Second, a mixture of survival, fear and mainly ego. Each state or government consists [currently] of individuals who may or may not be aware of their own [inner] imbalance - which directly [influence] within and through most of our efforts. Moreover, the idea that machines are perfect and only humans make mistakes - who then, creates, the machines. If I am flawed and make mistakes, there is potential for voluntary or involuntary imperfections, exotic or not.
Too much spirituality can lead to inaction, and inaction can lead to devastation, our Cosmos is not entirely peaceful.
Balance.”
“The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.”
Source: The Tesla Papers
“The individual is far better-positioned to wait patiently for the right pitch while paying no regard to what others are doing, which is almost impossible for professionals.”
“The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.”
Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.”
“The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.”
Source: Mies van der Rohe
“The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.”
Source: Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories
“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.”
“The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.”
“The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.”
“The individual is the brain, not the heart.”