The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman like any other sensible human being always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it you will be lonely often and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The Art of Happiness There was never a time when so much official effort was being expended to produce happiness and probably never a time when so little attention was paid by the individual to creating and personal qualities that make for it. What one m
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
Wherever a man goes men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions and if they can constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Nature made him and then broke the mold.
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual but incredible stupidity can usually be traced back to an organization.
A man doesnt begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; Im against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than The Individual.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman like any other sensible human being always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it you will be lonely often and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
We dont see things as they are we see them as we are.
The Art of Happiness There was never a time when so much official effort was being expended to produce happiness and probably never a time when so little attention was paid by the individual to creating and personal qualities that make for it. What one m
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
Fond as we are of our loved ones there comes at times during their absence an unexplainable peace.
Wherever a man goes men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions and if they can constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
If I persist if I continue to try if I continue to charge forward I will succeed.
If I try to be like him who will be like me?