#individual

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#congratulations #effect #individuals #liberty #may

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#collective #i #i do #ignorance #individual

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#among #dolls #enormous #expressions #facial

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#already #america #anyone #attention #course

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#backbone #individual #man #men #mere

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#boiling #down #emotion #individualism #instead

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#called #could #degree #difference #doubt

The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#actions #based #civil #civil liberties #found

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#art #concrete #individual #platonic