#dualism

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. ↗

— Joe Biden

#common #community #individualism #long #over

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#defeat #down #education #educational #ends

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#dualism #fact #female #feminine #fluid

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. ↗

— Evo Morales

#aside #changing #consumption #debt #earth

Who would you be but who you are? ↗

— Terry Brooks

#fantasy #individualism #fantasy

For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#philosophy #self #experience

It's not just that people sacrifice their love relationships, and the care of their children, to pursue their careers. Something like this has perhaps always existed. The point is that today many people feel called to do this, feel they ought to do this, feel their lives would be somehow wasted or unfulfilled if they didn't do it. ↗

— Charles Taylor

#love

Everything he admired or loved had been the product of intense individualism. ...when had mass philosophies ever brought benefit or wisdom? ↗

— John le Carré

#philosophy #wisdom #love

The first duty of a man is to think for himself ↗

— José Martí

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#philosophy #men