Emile Durkheim Quotes

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

I want people to see what I can do. Not see what Steph can do or my dad can do and then assume that's what I do. I want them to actually watch me play and then decide who they think I am.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

You need to be your own individual.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

Everything comes out of what works for me.

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

I am a private human.

Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

I am definitely an individual.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.

I thought of myself as an individual ever since I was little.

I think, in the end, we are all our own individual person.

I am my own demographic.

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

I can't give up my own identity.