Variant: Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
Source: Anthem
“I believe in individuality, but individuals are, to the mass, like waves to the ocean. The highest order of genius is as dependent as is the lowest.”
1870s, Self-Made Men (1872)
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Mozi
(-470–-391 BC) Chinese political philosopher and religious reformer of the Warring States period
Book 10: Exposition of Canon II; this is the earliest known description of the inverted image produced by a camera obscura,; as translated in by Ian Jonston in The Mozi (2010), p. 489
“I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.”
Source: A Passage to India
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Julian of Norwich
(1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 80
Context: I believe and understand the ministration of angels, as clerks tell us: but it was not shewed me. For Himself is nearest and meekest, highest and lowest, and doeth all. And not only all that we need, but also He doeth all that is worshipful, to our joy in heaven.
“The development of the individual to his highest potential for the benefit of the group.”
Ella Baker
(1903–1986) African-American civil rights and human rights activist
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: documents, speeches and firsthand accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954–1990, ed. Clayborne Carson et al. (Penguin Books, 1991), p. 121.
Frank Chodorov
(1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: Out of Step: The Autobiography of an Individualist (1962), p. 154
“I am an individual and a believer in liberty.”
Charlie Chaplin
(1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
In response to journalist for comments on United States Attorney-General's announcement to revoke his re-entry visa, Cherbourg, England, as quoted in "Mr. Chaplin's Defense", The Guardian (23 September 1952)
Context: I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism — and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.
“Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”
Bk. 7, ch. 1
Corinne (1807)