Who would you be but who you are?

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid…

— Helen Keller

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,…

— Erich Fromm

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“Today, we exaggerate the differences between left-liberal egalitarianism and libertarian individualism because almost everyone shares their common indefinite attitude. In philosophy, politics, and business,…

— Peter Thiel

“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Daisuke was of course equipped with conversation that, even if they went further, would allow him to retreat as if nothing had happened. He…

— Natsume Sōseki

“In addition to the transience of their members, churches themselves face a crisis of hypermobility. Many churches have put down only shallow roots in…

— C. Christopher Smith

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

— James F. Cooper

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,…

— Herman E. Daly

In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism.…

— Vincent Nichols

Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own…

— H. L. Mencken

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical…

— Ernest Solvay