There is a massive world full of people and it’s really easy to get caught up in feeling like you’re not an individual, but it’s vital to recognize that you have so much to contribute without even realizing. You have a story to tell and the journey that you’ve been on. Every single person on this pl…
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Quotes tagged ‘Individualism’
Should the ruling hand show signs of weakness in such a State the result will not be to cause a kind of hibernation of the State but rather to awaken the individualist instincts which are slumbering in the ethnological groups. These instincts do not make themselves felt as long as these groups are d…
In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?
Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality? Or may it be presumed that for the future human civilization will be able to dispense with this as a condition of its existence? But may it not be t…
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.
To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.
I think one of the saddest things about the current state of our democracy is that people seem to think they should vote based on what is best for them as individuals, rather than what is best for the country as a whole.
There is no, nor should there be, irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of the individual person and the interests of the collective. There should be no such contrast, because collectivism, Socialism, does not deny, but combines individual interests…
I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some day when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on. I shall have less to say, But I shall be gone.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
It’s left to the private individual to be his own priest. But not only that. It’s also left to him to be he his own poet, his own philosopher, his own king, and his own master builder in the cathedral of his personality. The ultimate roots of romanticism and the romantic phenomenon lie in the privat…
Print created individualism and nationalism in the sixteenth century.
The left's concern for the interests and wellbeing of the powerless and the weak, and its belief that such powerlessness and weakness are the results of the social system, and not of the inadequacies of the people within it, leads it to propose a political program of social action. The right has bee…