#individuality

We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#customers #dealing #i #important #individuality

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality. ↗

— Thomas More

#individuality #life #our #precious #sources

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#cannot #concrete #consciousness #consists #form

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#because #essential #finds #god #him

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#dwell #eternal #eternal life #god #him

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions. ↗

— Paul Signac

#anarchist #conventions #create #fight #his

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#claim #culture #deepest #derive #existence

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#cannot #exhausted #genuine #indifferent #individuality

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#individuality #invention #beauty

Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes. ↗

— Criss Jami

#christ #compassion #consideration #discernment #distinction