Well, to tell you the truth, I’ve thought of it often and often before, but he’s such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all – you can’t imagine what a jovial good fellow he is...

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.

If there is one thing I have come to believe over the years, it’s the notion that there really is somebody for everybody. Every single person is going to look at beauty from a different...

The same way a compact disk isn’t responsible for what’s recorded on it, that’s how we are. You’re about as free to act as a programmed computer. You’re about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

Everyone’s different, and in that way everyone’s the same. Stand out by sitting down. Try my love seat—it’s made for two people, so you can be comfortably obese.

Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience…. If there are enough zombies recruited into our world, I worry about the potential...

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.

To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

You call me the unhuman,” it might say to him, “and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because you bring me into opposition to the human, and I could despise myself...

When I say “I,” I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of...

It’s idealistic, it’s for love and gentleness, it’s close to nature, it hurts nobody, it’s voluntary. I can’t see anything wrong with any of that.”Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be...

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.

What you feel, however unsure you are, is YOU.There can never be anything more important than that.

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...

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the...

Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, “The wise man is always similar to himself.” –

She was looking for something I could never give her.” Again his dark eyes bored into Julia’s mind. “You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don’t think you will...

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This...

[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we’re good with our mouths too…(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Let your eyes see what they see, not what others want you to see. Let your ears hear what they naturally hear, not what others want you to hear. Let your mouth speak your mind...

I am not a number; I am a free man.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two...

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That’s the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they...

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

Nowadays, ads don’t just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here’s a cool guy saying nobody tells him what to do. He does whatever he wants and he buys this...

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

To the untrained eye, Ben had nothing, at least by the bizarre rules that governed high school. But really, Ben was one of the few who wasn’t pretending, one of the few who was free.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people.

If every individual should plant a tree in their life time, the world will be full of trees.

individuality” lost.

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn’t mean I could speak for all young people.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

Let others determine your worth and you’re already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

There can’t be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn’t room. There can’t be.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

What did I fear, and why? — I, to whom the night had beena more familiar facethan that of man —I, in whom that element of hereditary superstition from which none of us is altogether...