It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars..., and noise ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson ... has really believed i...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Quintilian [educational writer in Rome about A.D. 100] hoped that teachers would be sensitive to individual differences of tempera...ment and ability. . . . Beating, he thought, was usually unnecessary. A teacher who had made the effort to understand his pupil's individual needs and character could probably dispense with it: "I will content myself with saying that children are helpless and easily victimized, and that therefore no one should be given unlimited power over them."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the ri...ght of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not f...or the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whereas the child is chiefly playful and experimental, the adult focuses on specific and conscious experiences. He practices selec...tive inattention to the objects for which he has no immediate use and develops a kind of tunnel vision that helps him to move toward selected goals. This focusing on a limited range of experiences and goals is largely responsible for one's individual evolution and gives a deep and almost tragic significance to a statement made by Albert Camus in his novel La Chute: "Après un certain âge tout homme est responsable do son visage." An almost identical statement appears as the last entry in George Orwell's notebooks: "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." There could not any more absolute affirmation of belief in personal responsibility for the quality of one's own life and character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they be...lieve that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society a...re non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.... The individual is the heart of society, conserving the essence of social life; society is the lungs which are distributing the element to keep the life essence--that, is, the individual--pure and strong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »