"Each day has its own individuality of color."
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"Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art."
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"It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living."
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"Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . ."
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"Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred."
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"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."
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"The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors."
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"Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology."
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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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"Individuality is founded in feeling"
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"My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free."
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"Be different - without concern for what others think."
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"Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity."
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"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."
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"In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified."
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"The way I represent my individuality is by mixing classic pieces - like sports jackets - with little, unexpected additions."
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"The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves."
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"There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them."
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"But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts."
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"Our expenses are all for conformity."
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