Individual - Individuality Quotes

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain. My friend, I’ll say it clear. I’ll state my case of which I’m certain. I’ve lived a life that’s full. I’ve traveled each and every highway. But more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

I feel ill at ease with that little word ‘We.’ No man is at one with another, you see. Behind all agreement lies something amiss. All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; she never produces classes.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; – and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions […]

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.