22 Metaphors for individuality

The individuality of the one whom it represents was the ruling force in the hour of its production; and to the spirit of a household, a community, a kingdom, or an age, that individuality is the key.

I have another friend, who was brought up in a household in which, as she says, "individuality" was the keynote.

Now, individuality is the sign of superior races and of civilizations already developed.

Individuality is the self-conditioning, the self-limitation of the species.

On all but the strongest minds it casts a narcotizing spell, so that thought is arrested, and originality, vivacity, individuality become a crimea shame that must be hidden.

From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather of limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

You mean, I suppose, that your individuality is such a delightful thing, so splendid, so perfect, and beyond comparethat you can't imagine anything better.

Our individualities are millions of miles apart.

That individuality is not the individuality of a partisan or of a theorist, but the individuality of a broad-minded, high-minded, chivalrous gentleman.

Individuality is, in his theory, the only definition of poetry.

As compilation is not my business, I have made no use of these predecessors; more especially because in the process of compiling, individuality of view is lost, and individuality of view is the kernel of works of this kind.

The individuality of the one whom it represents was the ruling force in the hour of its production; and to the spirit of a household, a community, a kingdom, or an age, that individuality is the key.

In the preceding age, as the result of the turmoil produced by the French Revolution, lawlessness was more or less common, and individuality was the rule in literature.

But your individuality is not your true and inmost being: it is only the outward manifestation of it.

What I objected to was her assumption, so calm and gratuitous, that her individuality, with all its confessed limitations, was, of course, superiorstronger, wiser, subtler than mine.

The term "individuality" is in fact a most misleading word.

From all this it follows that individuality is not a state of perfection but of limitation; so that to be freed from it is not loss but rather gain.

Its apparent individuality is a consequence of its spontaneity as a centre of actionalways understood that the spontaneity is consistent with the absolute eternal order assumed throughout the work.

Individuality is an accompaniment, an accessory, a red line on the map, a fence about the field, a copyright on the book.

Individuality is the self-conditioning, the self-limitation of the species.

Individuality is an all-important feeling in the organization of human beings into communities; and the political economist who does not use it as his most powerful auxiliary in advancing civilization, will soon see it turn round in its tracks, and become a dead weight; indulging its self-love, by living with the minimum of exertion, instead of pushing his private advantage, with the maximum.

Individuality of type, and difference from other beings of its type, is another mark of rank.

22 Metaphors for  individuality