999 Quotes About Individuality

The concept of normalcy is a threat to individuality.

The worst thing a person can do to anothre--besides eat them of course--is to reduce their identity to being only Half of something. When someone is treated as Half Or Less Than Half Of one identity, they're not being treated like a human at all. Every one should have the right to individuality.

Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" conception of the world which permits the subject to assert itself against the object as something independent and equal; whereas classical antiquity did not as yet permit the explicit formulation of this contrast; and whereas the Middle Ages believed the subject as well as the object to be submerged in a higher unity.

Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.

Who cares what insecure people think who are insanely jealous that you are OK with yourself?

Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent.

...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that there is little time and space in which to explore emancipatory potentialities outside what is marketed as 'creative' adventure, leisure, and spectacle. Obliged to live as appendages of the market and of capital accumulation rather than as expressive beings, the realm of freedom shrinks before the awful logic and the hollow intensity of market involvements

Benita set the letter down. Connie - her dear Connie, whom she had never even said good-bye to. Whom she had hated - really hated- for so long. But he had always been strong. He had lived his life on a plane of grand ideals and all-encompassing rights and wrongs. His view had been much longer than the trappings of his own life. And she had been the little mouse who could see no farther than her own nose, stumbling over roots and stones, oblivious to the oncoming storm.

The individual is the refined reflection of themselves within the collective.