Top 40 Individuality Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”

— Charlie Chaplin

2. “In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.”

— Alex Grey

3. “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

— Malcolm Muggeridge

4. “The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”

— Sigmund Freud

5. “Be that self which one truly is.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

6. “Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.”

— Alice Hoffman

7. “In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.”

— Abdul Kalam

8. “I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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9. “In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.”

— Franz Kafka

10. “Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.”

— David Bohm

11. “The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.”

— Deepak Chopra

12. “Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”

— George Bernard Shaw

13. “Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”

— C.G. Jung

14. “Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.”

— George Santayana

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15. “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”

— Joss Whedon

16. “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

— Ray Bradbury

17. “Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.”

— Maria Montessori

18. “Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

19. “Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit. This is the essence of the trance dance experience.”

— Goa Gil

20. “Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than “The Individual.””

— Soren Kierkegaard

21. “More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.”

— Albert Camus

22. “The beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique – good, bad, or indifferent – from other individuals.”

— Tony Robbins

23. “Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”

— Dolly Parton

24. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

— Kurt Cobain

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25. “No one can transcend their own individuality.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

26. “I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”

— Ayn Rand

27. “In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”

— Karl Marx

28. “The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselves – in the sense of individuality as a unique divine thought – until we are reborn in Christ.”

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

29. “Maximum individuality within maximum community.”

— Immanuel Kant

30. “No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

31. “Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”

— George Bernard Shaw

32. “Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.”

— Brian Molko

33. “When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.”

— Ani DiFranco

34. “When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.”

— Pablo Picasso

35. “Style is an expression of your individuality. Who you are and what your mood is, is what you wear.”

— Sonam Kapoor

36. “Each day has its own individuality of color.”

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

37. “I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that’s un-American somehow.”

— Henry Miller

38. “No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.”

— William Feather

39. “The individualists stare into each other’s eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.”

— Ingmar Bergman

40. “It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.”

— Louis Sullivan