#duality

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking. ↗

— George MacDonald

#identity #individuality #creation

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#far #hard #how #how far #in the past

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. ↗

— Karl Marx

#capital #dependent #independent #individuality #living

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#fashion #i #individuality #into #slave

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#eyes #find #human #individuality #individuals

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. ↗

— Alan Rudolph

#individuality #just #know #number #our

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atoms #chemical #chemist #compounds #consist

Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#choice #dance #identity #individuality #life

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#human-nature #individuality #age

Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#god #art