Individuality

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations --past and present --are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

No one can transcend their own individuality.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that