Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd."
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Conformity
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing."
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
"If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord."
William S. Burroughs
Writer
"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it."
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"Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive"
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"It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks."
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"What is a rebel? A man who says no."
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"Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average"
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"When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself."
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"Seek freedom from the conformity of styles"
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"I am myself. That is not enough."
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"Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good."
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"Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture."
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"Never say No when the world says Aye."
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"It's weird not to be weird."
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"A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature."
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"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."
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"Our real journey in life is interior."
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"The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles."
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"When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away."
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"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
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"Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."
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"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns."
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"The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions."
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