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“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.”

Individual Social Imagination Accepting Creativity Creative Capable Capacity Pressure Caught Intuition Assumption Questioning Peer Pressure Social Pressure False Assumptions

Author:John W. Gardner

“Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.”

Source: The Undiscovered Self

“Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.”

May Sometimes Lying Humanity Individual Tree Capable

Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

“It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.”

Should May Said Individual Natural Becoming Capable Absolutes

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.”

Ifs Men Persons Whole Individual Social Understanding Capable Capacity Fellows Institutions Foundation Stability Fellow Man Capacity To Love

Book:Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

Source: Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

“Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.”

Mind Mean Certain Individual Answers Results Virtue Capable Series Observation Permit Capability Questioning Finite Measurement

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to "images," and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it.”

Individual Cases Information Baby Ten Capable Relation Add Ancient Extremes Remarkable Portraits Symbolic Accuracy

Author:George Sarton

“People who are capable of practicing tantra are individuals who have meditated for many, many years and developed very strong and powerful states of attention.”

People Years States Philosophy Individual Strong Powerful Attention Capable Very Strong Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the truth, once you have become consciousness itself, then you go beyond all such distinctions.”

Individual Realizing Consciousness Buddhism Capable Tradition Chains Buddhist Distinction Etiquette Lineage

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual”

Individual Capable Concepts Historical Concept Of Time

Author:Paul Ricoeur

“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.”

“To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.”

Individual Capable Shock Avert Adaptable Future Shock

Book:future shock

Source: future shock

“The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.”

Individual Nations Black Stage Particular Capable Assumption Mainstream Representation Guerrillas

Author:Aberjhani

“Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.”

“The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.”

Humans Law Individual Natural Wealth Powerful Effort Liberty Conditions Capable Prosperity Libertarian Operations Folly Libertarianism Assistance Individual Liberty Carrying On Obstruction

Author:Adam Smith

“More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is not preparing us adequately to attend the rich banquet of life. Certainly the young people of today have mastered the use of technology and are capable of solving complex scientific and mathematical problems, but who and what do these serve if they cannot think for themselves? If they have no understanding of the meaning and purpose of their own lives? If they do not know who they are as individuals?”

“The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Writing Form Individual Novel Television Capable Shots Ultimate Finals Fabulous Assistants Motion Pictures Best Shot Alimony Payday

Author:James Ellroy

“There is great freedom in simplicity of living, and after I began to feel this, I found harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being. There is a great deal to be said about such harmony, not only for an individual life but also for the life of a society. It's because as a world we have gotten ourselves so far out of harmony, so way off on the material side, that when we discover something like nuclear energy we are still capable of putting it into a bomb and using it to kill people! This is because our inner well-being lags so far behind our outer well-being.”

“A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.”

Individual Economy Generations Capable Lifetime Contribution Enterprise

Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.”

Reading Individual Subjects Capable Complexity Reflecting

Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.”

Thinking Children Important Age Individual My Own Decision Grew Grew Up Capable Making Decisions Only Child

Author:Noel Clarke

“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.”

Made Literature Individual Society Capable Originals Capability Originality Frantic Unendurable Original Thought

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.”

Ifs Men Feelings Individual Compassion Habit Morality Eating Capable Direct Fellows Independence Doctrine Fellow Man Eating Out Fellow Feeling

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.”

World Character Individual Honesty This World Capable Definitions Contradiction Bundles

Book:The Financier: Top American Novels

Source: The Financier: Top American Novels

“To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.”

Way Individual Nations Community Decision Limits Capable Resources Roots Impact Profession Shock New Ways Shaking Hurricanes Thrust Anchors Avert Adaptable Future Shock

Author:Alvin Toffler

“[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.”

People Ifs Years Littles Hands Culture Individual Community Known Five Havens Expression Members Capable Fingers Zoos Gorillas

Author:Daniel Quinn

“Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.”

People Persons Character Order Individual Numbers Trouble Genius Members Capable Exes Fitting Hurtful Mould Small Numbers Compression

Book:On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

“A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations”

Persons Use Individual Creation Expression Creating Capable Originals Instruments Individuality Contrary Belonging Gestures Incarnation

Author:Milan Kundera

“A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations.”

Way Facts Individual Given Social Acting Human Nature Exercise Capable Independent Fixed Manifestation Constraints

Author:Emile Durkheim

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