Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with ...order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why runners make lousy communists. In a word, individuality. It's the one characteristic all runners, as different as they are, se...em to share.... Stick with it. Push yourself. Keep running. And you'll never lose that wonderful sense of individuality you now enjoy. Right, comrade?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded sit...uation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic un...conscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So little are the Homeric heroes presented as developing or having developed, that most of them--Nestor, Agamemnon, Achilles--appe...ar to be of an age fixed from the very first. Even Odysseus, in whose case the long lapse of time and the many events which occurred offer so much opportunity for biographical development, shows almost nothing of it. Odysseus on his return is exactly the same as he was when he left Ithaca two decades earlier. But what a road, what a fate, lie between the Jacob who cheated his father out of his blessing by a wild beast!--between David the harp player, persecuted by his lord's jealousy, and the king, surrounded by violent intrigues, whom Abishag the Shunnamite warmed in his bed, and he knew her not! The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality; and it is this history of a personality which the Old Testament presents to us as the formation undergone by those whom God has chosen as his examples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A tragic poet will never think of grouping around the chief character in his play secondary characters to serve as simplified copi...es, so to speak, of the former. The hero of a tragedy represents an individuality unique of its kind. It may be possible to imitate him, but then we shall be passing, whether consciously or not, from the tragic to the comic. No one is like him, because he is like no one. But a remarkable instinct, on the contrary, impels the comic poet, once he has elaborated his central character, to cause other characters, displaying the same general traits, to revolve as satellites round him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake,... in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal o...f the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact, we live in ...a homosexual society because all credible transactions of power, authority, and authenticity take place among men; all transactions based on equity and individuality take place among men. Men are real; therefore, all real relationship is between men; all real communication is between men; all real reciprocity is between men; all real mutuality is between men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »