"The common individual always conforms to the prevailing opinion and the prevailing fashion; he regards the state in w…"

"It will no longer be as it once was, that individuals could look to the nearest eminence for orientation when things …"

"It is Christian heroism—a rarity, to be sure—to venture wholly to become oneself, an individual human being, this spe…"

"L’individu ne se définit que par sa relation au monde et aux autres individus, il n’existe qu’en se transcendant et s…"

"It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the grea…"

"Most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communi…"

"Wenn wir uns selbst fehlen, fehlt uns doch alles."

"It is true that we instinctively recoil from seeing an object to which our emotions and affections are committed hand…"

"If someone took control of your mind and you were not able to think as yourself any longer, you would no longer be yo…"

"By the term individual I shall mean that in which each of us is peculiarly himself. I shall emphasize not what is com…"