The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in o...
The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. I...
When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others. By dividing endlessly, or by failing to ...
Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectiv...
There are infinitely many possible worlds each of which has its own worldview, norm and values, moralities and so on. Only one of them is actual for each individual. Theological and conservative systems forget the existence of other alternative possi...
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior, by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatev...
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
The same way he treats animals and other vulnerable individuals is the same way he’ll relate to your feminine side.
To restrict oneself and somewhat settle under a particular sexual essence is to limit our expression and individual progress.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...
Nature is not kind; it is not good. Do you really think nature cares about any individual living thing?
People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can’t really survive as whole individuals without it.
We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.
