Individual Quotes
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification.
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The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
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It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
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The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.
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They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
