“I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.” PeopleFeelsHumansHandsLawCertainIndividualMy OwnProduceCreaturesMassBirdSpeciesCrowdsMysteriousRhythmMake SenseFeaturesRepeatsQuantityGesturesRepetitionInsectsInabilityDisturbingCountingHerdsRiddleInvokeSubservientSwitchingPrototypeAbhorrenceHuman HandsAssemblage Author:Magdalena Abakanowicz
“Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.” IfsCertainIndividualExistenceFriendsFaultsResentOld Friends Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't have our conception of all lives matters. And it was really was true for them, that certain lives matter a lot more than others. It didn't dawn on them that all lives, although different, can be lives of equal mattering. And that is actually something a huge ethical lesson.” DifferentMatterCertainIndividualInterestingRightsHugeLessonsEqualAncientDawnGreekEthicalConceptionInteresting ThingsIndividual RightsAncient Greek Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.” CertainPoliticsIndividualChanceWifeDutyOffersMajorityOfficialsPublic Officials Book:Autobiography Source: Autobiography
“Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more important than their differences.... The common responsibility of all Americans is to become effective, helpful participants in a way of life that blends and harmonizes the fiercely competitive demands of the individual and society.” MenWayImportantCountryTogetherAmericaCertainIndividualDifferencesViewsCommonResponsibilityShareDemandAspirationHelpfulParticipantsDivergentIndividuals And Society Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.” IfsMenBelieveHas BeensBookCertainIndividualModernCrimeDevelopmentAdvantageFunctionInjusticeAncientIllnessVicesCrueltyAshamedEtcBelieve In MeHomosexualityHomosexualPlatoVariationRespectableDegradationModern TimesLeonardoGreatest Man Author:Sigmund Freud