The Individual Quotes
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.
Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.
I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.
The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.
When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.
The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.
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.
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.
My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
I honestly think that my sincerity lies with my country and each and every individual who knows me will agree with this fact.
In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
While I hold my own views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.
The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.
His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.
Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.
Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.
there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug.
That's the best part of the game, to see the smiles on their faces and the breakthroughs they have as individuals.
Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.