In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
individual / Lonely / own
Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.
After all, what is an individual?
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
deficiency / import / individual / value
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
individual / man / Sex
Freud made the discovery – quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material – that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.
Faith is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal.
Faith / individual / paradox / universal
The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve.
achieved / finds / individual
No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.