“Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.”

— Paul Tillich , book The Courage to Be

Source: The Courage to Be (1952), p. 113

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German-American theologian and philosopher 1886–1965

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