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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a… — Malcolm Muggeridge
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness… — Samuel Johnson
In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences.… — Unknown Author
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us. — Charles Scott Sherrington
If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and… — Nachman of Breslov
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the… — Bernard Baruch
One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own… — Herman Melville
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized… — D. H. Lawrence
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable… — Helen Keller
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual… — Gustav Stresemann
Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being. — Swami Vivekananda
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. — David Foster Wallace
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result… — Erich Fromm
Every time one person chooses a new way to respond to the challenges of life, each time an individual chooses a new option, that person… — Gregg Braden
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and… — Charles Baudelaire
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that… — Harriet Martineau
If you live on the level of the Body and the Individual, you will get entangled in food, fun and frolic, ease, envy and pride.… — Sathya Sai Baba
An individual's state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new feelings, and the… — Harold Klemp
Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with… — William James
To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and… — John F. Kennedy
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves. — Marcel Proust
The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision - whether to fight or… — Richard M. Nixon
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of… — Leon Trotsky
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from… — Simone de Beauvoir

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