Definition of Individual

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Individual

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.

A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.

An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.

The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.

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Individual Quotations

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Thomas Jefferson

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Individual Translations

individual in Afrikaans is individueel, persoonlik
individual in Dutch is hoofdelijk, individueel
individual in French is individu, individuel
individual in German is Individual, eigenwillig, individuell
individual in Italian is individuale, individuo
individual in Latin is specialissimus
individual in Spanish is individual, individuo
individual in Swedish is individuell, enskild, individ, personlig

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