“Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.” MeanIndividualCasesFitEqualUniqueConceptsOriginalsReminders Book:Nietzsche Selections Source: Nietzsche Selections
“In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.” WorldPersonsPrayerClassPerspectiveEqualMembersUniqueUnique Perspective Author:W. H. Auden
“I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating.... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest.” WayBelieveArtPlayMightOpportunityBitsWaitingSleepSpecialTalentGeniusEqualUniqueCreatorSellingGiantsGiftedEqual OpportunityHidden Talents Author:Tony Robbins
“Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.” PeopleEqualUniqueSuperiorsInferiorsIncomparable Author:Rajneesh
“There are a few instances that arise in the unique context of domestic equal-protection challenges to governmental actions that are facially neutral but produce substantial discriminatory impacts on groups of people, based on such suspect classifications as race, nationality, ethnic origin, etc. This doctrine has never been used in foreign affairs.” PeopleActionUsedChallengesRaceGroupsProduceEqualUniqueImpactAffairProtectionAriseDoctrineInstanceEtcSuspectsNationalityClassificationForeign AffairsEqual Protection Author:David B. Rivkin
“In fashion, of course, the way that women are dressed now - and also a vision of the modern woman, the woman of today. She's very feminine, but at the same time, extremely free. A Saint Laurent woman is actually very Parisian. She's not really a man's equal, she's his adversary. I worked on the catwalk with two models who worked with Yves Saint Laurent for more than 10 years. They're not just gorgeous models, they're more than that - they're very smart and very beautiful. They're more than models, they're really unique; it's personality. It's more than just fashion.” TodayBeautifulVisionModernFashionPersonalityEqualUniqueSmartSaintFeminineGorgeousAdversariesVery BeautifulVery Smart Author:Jalil Lespert
“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.” IfsThinkingWorldLifeTwoSocialVoiceAnswersAliveEqualUniqueImportanceClaimsStriveComplicatedBillionsIntense Book:Atonement Source: Atonement
“She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her body unique, irreplaceble. But he, too had drawn an equal sign between her and the rest of them: he kissed them all alike, stroked them all alike, made no, absolutely no distiction between Tereza's body and the other bodies. He sent her back to the world she tried to escape, sent to march naked with the other naked women” WorldMadeBodyMotherEqualUniqueNakedMarch Author:Milan Kundera
“One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.” WayTogetherFourEqualUniqueRemainsJoining Book:The Handmaid's Tale Source: The Handmaid's Tale