Individualism Quotes - Page 18

• In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

  George Eliot

  Literature, Spite, Ability

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3874, ShandonPress

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• A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

  Jose Marti

  Children, Men, Thinking

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

  Vin Diesel

  Mother, Book, Car

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• Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism. Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by the illness of a spouse.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Intelligent, Healthy

  Sam Harris (2012). “Free Will”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

  Andre Gide

  Effort, Mind, Genius

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Abortion, Feminist, Allies

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• You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Travel, May, Ifs

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• You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Knowing Who You Are

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suicide, Fall, People

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• If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.

  Terry Goodkind

  Choices, Forever, Identity

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• All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, Three, May

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.359, Read Books Ltd

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• The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Gentleman, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Modern Library

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• Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1527, Delphi Classics

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• Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

  Henry Adams

  Witty, Science, Political Will

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 24 (1907)

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• All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Рипол Классик

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• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Powerful, Evil, Mind

  Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “The Frontier in American History”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Morality, Fantastic

  "Does America Need Ayn Rand or Jesus?" By Onkar Ghate, www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2011.

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• All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.10

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• Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, War, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

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• A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Men, Inferiority

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 36 (11 April 1776)

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• The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Loss, Europe, Islam

  "A Sermon for the West". Oriana Fallaci's address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

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• My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

  Winfield Scott

  Country, Integrity, Government

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• I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Believe, Self, People

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• Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

  Leon Trotsky

  Freedom, Political, World

  Leon Trotsky (2012). “The Revolution Betrayed”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.

  Eric Burns

  Home, Technology, Irrelevance

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