"No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream."
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"In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith."
"Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity"
"The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image."
"It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons."
"Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned."
"No one individual can tell the truth."
"The riddle of the age has for each a private solution."
"We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers)."
"In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin."
"Let's say that history is what happened. The record of what happened is how each individual happens to see those events. They've already been filtered. When the historian or biographer takes over, history is no longer exactly what happened, because there has been a process of selection going on; it's impossible to write about anyone, any event, in any period of time, without in some way imposing, even unconsciously, your own standards, your own values."
"In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts."
"An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas."
"The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it."
"Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that."
"I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual."
"The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn."
"Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws."
"I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals."
"Understanding that celebrity derives from and is a result of some form of accomplishment, it's always gratifying to work with individuals who have made some sort of contribution to society."