The Individual (n.) is tasked with differentiating himself from all the others and standing on his own feet. All collective identities interfere with the fulfillment of this task and become crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible.
An Individual (n.) is a very suspicious phenomenon whose right to exist a biologist could question — significant only as a particle in the mass; culture alone gives him meaning apart from it.
An Individual (n.) is, biologically, just a twig snapped off the mother plant and replanted; the life of the psyche is the life of mankind.
An Individual (n.) is the only door to the future: a new collective attitude can develop only through the individual, while reduction leads back from him to the collective.
An Individual (n.) is a late invention: go back far enough and personality disappears beneath the wrappings of collectivity, where the mind can think of others only by projection.
The Individual (n.) finds a personal problem humiliating while it stays private; once he sees it mirrored in the events of the age, it gains dignity, and the forces of collective instinct carry him over obstacles the will alone could never clear.
The Individual (n.) is always the exception to the rule: conformity is one side of a person, uniqueness the other, and no type ever fits more than one.
An Individual (n.) is the element of differentiation in a community; all the highest virtues and the blackest villainies are individual.
An Individual (n.) is precisely what can never merge with the collective — so identification with the collective and voluntary segregation from it are alike disease.
An Individual (n.) is the reflecting surface in which consciousness perceives its own unconscious historical image — neither conscious nor unconscious, but a bit of both.
An Individual (n.) is iron forged between hammer and anvil — open conflict and open collaboration of conscious and unconscious at once.
The Individual (n.) has something wrong with him whenever things go wrong in the world — with me, that is; so if I am sensible I put myself right first.
An Individual (n.) is a relative exception and an irregular phenomenon — unique, singular, in the last analysis neither knowable nor comparable with anything else.
The Individual (n.) counts for nothing beside large numbers — the one belief that wins universal, unanimous assent.
An Individual (n.) does not produce the psyche by his own will but is preformed by it — he is its only immediate manifestation.
An Individual (n.) is the makeweight that tips the scales — that infinitesimal unit on whom a world depends, and in whom even God seeks his goal.
An Individual (n.) is rather like an underprivileged minority within his own personality, which is collective to a high degree.
An Individual (n.) signifies nothing beside the universal, and the universal signifies nothing beside the individual: there are no universal elephants, only individual ones — yet without many elephants a single one would be exceedingly improbable.
An Individual (n.) is the sole and natural carrier of life; society is only a concept, and a concept carries no life.
An Individual (n.) is where life fulfils its meaning: we have served life's purpose if one tree bears fruit though a thousand stay barren — try to make everything luxuriate and the weeds will wave over your head.