#individual

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#authentic #convincing #dead #death #deathbed

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. ↗

— Philip Guston

#archaic #brains #forms #hands #heart

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it. ↗

— Paul Harris

#bottom #clique #despises #hates #hatred

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. ↗

— William James

#force #idea #individual #must #revelation

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#being #chair #current #does #everything

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#any #conformity #deny #establish #historical

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#governments #individuals #kill #killing #long

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#care #connected #higher #individual #involved

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#evidence #force #himself #individual #life

Base souls have no faith in great individuals. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#faith #great #individuals #souls