T Quotes
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“The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.”
“The individual is the only reality, the more we move away from the individual toward abstract ideas about Homo Sapiens, the more likely we are to fall into error.”
Source: Man and His Symbols
“The individual is the refined reflection of themselves within the collective.”
Source: Sea Breeze Academy
“The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“The individual journey that people take down the funnel of misbelief reflects a societal journey into mistrust. No matter where you are on the political spectrum, and no matter where you are in the world (with the possible exception of Scandinavia), it is hard to escape the ways in which our society's level of trust is decreasing, with alarming consequences.”
Source: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
“The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.”
“The individual lives unperturbed, sufficient unto himself, but then the paradox of self-love is awakened through the love of another, the one desired. (Self-love lies at the foundation of, or goes to the foundation of, all love, which is why, if we would like to think of a religion of love, it would be just as epigrammatic as true that it would have to assume a condition and accept it as given: that a person loves himself in order to be able to demand that he love the neighbour as himself.) The lover is changed by this paradox of love, so that he hardly recognizes himself (this is witnessed to by poets, who are love’s spokesmen, as well as by lovers themselves, in that they allow poets to take only the floor from them, not their passion) So this imperceptibly sensed paradox of the understanding affects a person and his self-knowledge, so he who believed he knew himself is no longer certain whether he is a stranger creature than Typhon, or whether there is not in his being a milder and more divine part”
Source: Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus
“The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.”
“The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.”
Source: Cross Creek
“The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.”
“The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his freedom to use or not use his reason about any given subject. In short, the natural fact of his "free will." He also discovers the natural fact of his mind's command over his body and its actions: that is, of his natural ownership over his self.”
Source: The Ethics of Liberty
“The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.”
Source: Minima Moralia
“The individual must choose in which direction they want to take this world of ours - will they take it down the same rotten path of sectarianism like our ancestors did, or will they build a whole new civilized path - a path that facilitates love, not hate - a path that facilitates discussion, not debate - a path that unites, not divides - in short, a path that is human, not savage!”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“The individual must find their own way, the same holds true for a nation.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.”
“The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.”
“The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.”
“The individual
organism is something whose existence most biologists take for granted,
probably because its parts do pull together in such a united and integrated
way. Questions about life are conventionally questions about organisms.
Biologists ask why organisms do this, why organisms do that. They frequently
ask why organisms group themselves into societies. They don't ask — though they
should — why living matter groups itself into organisms in the first place. Why
isn't the sea still a primordial battleground of free and independent
replicators? Why did the ancient replicators club together to make, and reside
in, lumbering robots, and why are those robots — individual bodies, you and me
— so large and so complicated?”
Source: The Selfish Gene
“The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.”
“The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.”
“The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.”
“The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.”
“The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.”
Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy
“The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.”
“The individual psychological stages in the lives of most people are:
1. To be hurt as a small child without anyone recognizing the situation as such
2. To fail to react to the resulting suffering with anger
3. To show gratitude for what are supposed to be good intentions
4. To forget everything
5. To discharge the stored-up anger onto others in adulthood or to direct it against oneself”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form. The elimination of the human relationship causes the vacuum which makes all of us suffer in various degrees - an individual alteration of the details of the object represented is necessary in order to display on the canvas the whole physicals reality.”
Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950
“The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.”
“The individual skill of the player determines the outcome, unlike betting on the horses or betting on the lottery. It's not an individual betting against the house and that's an important distinction.”
“The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.”
“The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.”
“The individual stories of saltwater slavery form the antithesis of historical narrative, for they feature not an evolving plot of change over time, but rather a tale of endless repetition that allows no temporal progression. Every protagonist was a pioneer, blazing a trail on the same ground traveled by predecessors in saltwater slavery, but without the benefit of historical memory. It is a narrative in which time seems to stand still.”
Source: Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
“The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.”
Source: The Story of Civilization: The Reformation
“The individual that sees truth may sometimes walk alone.”
Source: Distilled Thoughts
“The individual unit of society is the individual & We The People have that authority to be free! It's as if they truly take interest in our lives or family but in truth, all their interested in is the interest they levy n our heads. It;s all for monetary gains. It's a sale of who we are as if we are setting sail on waters like vassals in deep depths of laws oversea. Oh, the ingenuity of deceptive trickery. How could this all be meant to be? Following the mass of sheep isn't what's meant to me, so where is the light in darkness that'll enable me to see?”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.”
Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
“The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.”
Source: The World Beautiful
“The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
“The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.”
“The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.”
“The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.”
Source: Einstein on Peace
“The individual who has many friends, will be forced by necessity to create some imaginary enemies inside his mind.”
“The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
Source: The Ordeal of Change
“The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation.”
“The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.”
“The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.”
“The individual who kills who they ‘are’ out of the belief that they are liberating who they are ‘not’ will eventually kill both. And I have often thought that one way to make certain that we destroy our lives is to live it having died twice.”
“The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities”