Quotes of: Individual-life Keyword

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

The Apology

Kalist likes to listen to the collective voices swell as more individuals in his colony arrive.

From the Horse’s Mouth

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

The Inner Circle

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

The Invention of Wings

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

Killosophy

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

Killosophy

An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

The Rainy Season

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Sex & character

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

...There are as many sexes as there are individuals...the seeming neat correspondence between male and female organs is not the end, but the beginning, of sexuality.

Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Scouting for the Reaper

A band should be more famous than an individual, because all else being equal, the band has more mothers and fathers to lend support.

Sleepwalking is restercise

It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist]

A Set Of Six

A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.

The Second Sex

To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

Team Of One: We Believe

Nul ne peut voir par-dessus soi, écrit Schopenhauer pour faire comprendre l'impossibilité d'un échange d'idées entre deux individus d'un niveau intellectuel trop différent.

The Possibility of an Island

Diversity is like a buffet, only with people. That’s why I like associating with individuals who are as close to macaroni and cheese as humanly possible.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Is that a ziggurat in your pocket or are you just Mesopotamia? You should know I sell happy-to-see-me's & bananas individually or by the pocketful.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I know the secret number of the universe. It’s one, for the individual in search of the secret number. But the secret itself is love, and lies outside of one.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

Uncle Tom's Cabin