Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration
Neil PostmanTags: individuality individualism typography
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
William GoldingTags: individuality truth writing later-in-life
Not at all. It's why people come. They say it's about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it's not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blond. Other women go for colors that don't arise in
nature. Each group thinks it's completely different than the others, but I don't see it that way. I've watched them looking at themselves in the mirror, and they're not interested in conforming or rebelling, they just want to walk out of here feeling like themselves again.
Tags: individuality self hair appearance
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
Harold BloomTags: individuality autonomy
Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.
Ashly LorenzanaTags: individuality life perception world humanity colors black appreciation respect open-mindedness symbolism personal white preferences
One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.
Hope SoloTags: individuality strength character leadership resiliency outspoken free-spirited
[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
René DescartesTags: individuality equality
People who are different are beautiful. Those who follow society are boring.
Gina AdelTags: individuality society boring
I am not a number; I am a free man.
Patrick McGoohanTags: individuality freedom free nonconformity the-prisoner
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
John Maynard KeynesTags: individuality wisdom
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