Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Charles Baudelaire

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
David Bowie

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
Marilyn vos Savant

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
Marilyn vos Savant

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
Marilyn vos Savant

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Daniel Webster

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.
Jean Piaget

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Jean Piaget

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
Miguel de Unamuno

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Virginia Satir

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
Dorothy Day

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Taylor Caldwell