#individuality

[philosophybits]

With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

#philosophy #quotes #Oscar Wilde #The Soul of Man Under Socialism #property #wealth #individuality #life

[noosphe-re]

The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing, it would say; I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone."

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

#quote #William James #psychology #James #human nature #The Varieties of Religious Experience #classification #individuality #philosophy #mind #intellect #identity

[serenityquest]

#individuality #unique #inspirational

[riverphoenixislove]

Simply himself.

[River @ The Oscar Luncheon, 1989]

#River Phoenix #casual #Oscar Luncheon #Academy Awards #River Jude Phoenix #event #1989 #film industry #Rio Phoenix #The Oscars #individuality #red carpet #80s

[entheognosis]

I don't give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am ... You are a shit.

Frida Kahlo

#frida kahlo #individuality

[lawbreaker13]

Flaming hot take, but not every movie or TV show needs to hit every individual diversity mark to be a good movie or show?

Like, please understand, I very much get the concept of intersectionality, and I know the actual statistics of minorities’ presence in the world and there is a whole lot of overlap that would be nice to see realistically portrayed in the media but it’s just like. Sometimes a story is just…A story. It’s one person’s story. And it doesn’t need to hit some specific diversity quota to be a good story.

Accept the movies about Latin people as a movie about Latin people. Accept the queer representation as queer representation. Take the story about the disabled person for what it is. But if it’s a story about a queer couple facing adversity, maybe don’t get up in arms about them not being the “right type” of queer for you. Wild idea? TELL THAT STORY YOURSELF.

Because sometimes that straight couple is dealing with other issues in their universe, and that’s why it’s not gay. Sometimes if you cast a black woman, that makes it a black story. And that Asian storyteller isn’t telling the story of a black woman. They’re telling their story.

So instead of getting mad that this isn’t the story YOU wanted to hear? Tell the story you wanted to hear. Because that one is theirs. And someone deserves to tell yours.

The diversity quota does as much of a disservice to storytelling as a lack of representation does. If you don’t resonate enough, make something we can resonate with more. Let us claim our stories as our own, and leave others to say what they want to say.

If we all tell our stories, I promise. Eventually you’ll find one just for you.

#Truly a sizzling hot take #I’m sorry #It’s just starting to piss me off #Like guys #I’m not the person to tell this black story #I can tell a neurodivergent story or a Jewish one #But I’m not qualified to tell a black story #Let someone else #Storytelling #Movies #TV #Television #Diversity #Representation #Individuality #Rant #Personal #Mine

[akindplace]

This post is a reminder for those who resemble their parents in some ways but don't want to be anything like them: you are your own person, not an extension of your parents. You are an individual. You can make your own choices, you can follow your own path. You won't become your parents because you were never them, you just share common traits with them. I know it's scary, specially when they don't treat you like a person, but like you are an extension of them, or part of them, or like they own you, or like you can be molded into being whoever they want you to be. Some parents can forget they are raising a completely separate human being, an individual with their own personality, with different needs, with their own agency. But don't forget that you are an entirely different person just because your parents ignored that fact (because this is a fact). You cannot become your parents, surely they can influence you, you often share similar traits, but you will always be you.

#parents #relationships #family #individuality #reminder #on being human #self-worth #original writing

[thequietabsolute]

It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little — have few verbal means. Eloquence – thinking in words – is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980

#susan sontag #diary #As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh #diaries #solitude #individuality

[kketisha]

"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus.

#The Myth of Sisyphus #albert camus #quotes #happy #philosophy #life #psychology #hope #life lessons #individuality #truth #literature #camus #algeria #the stranger #french #art

[palatinewolfsblog]

A gentle reminder:

Children are like snowflakes.

They are pure.

They are beautiful.

They are unique.

They each soar, at their own pace,

so never try to compare them!

(Nor make them look small!)

Snowflakes are dancing (Hommage a Pascal Campion).

#thought of the day #thought of today #children #little folks #snowflakes #pure #purity #beautiful #beauty #unique #uniqueness #individuality #soar #fly #pace #compare #comparison #think about it #art #digital art #hommage #pascal campion

[philosophybits]

How does the strong spirit come into being? This is in the individual case the question of how genius is produced. Whence comes the energy, the inflexible strength, the endurance with which the individual thinks, in opposition to tradition, to attain to a wholly individual perception of the world?

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 230

#philosophy #quotes #Friedrich Nietzsche #Human All Too Human #genius #individuality #imagination #creativity #humanity

[endpatriarch]

Women, don’t be soft.

In a world where men are the most dangerous risk to women, and said men want women who are styled in the patriarchy’s costume, feminists must reject this costume!

We must refuse to be soft. Refuse to be shy. Refuse to be quiet, over accommodating, cute, seductive, small. It’s only logical: don’t be what men want women to be. Don’t give them the satisfaction or opportunity. Don’t let men win. You must be tough, independent, loud, ugly, mean. Command your space.

#radblr #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist #radicalfeminism #radicalfeminist #rehumanize women #end the patriarchy #destroy the patriarchy #anti gender #anti beauty #object to objectification #confidence #individuality #gender nonconformity #gender abolitionist

[thirdity]

Biologists or philosophers cannot conceive a biosphere or noosphere because they are unwilling to abandon a certain narrow conception of individuality. Nevertheless, the step must be taken. For in fact, pure spirituality is as unconceivable as pure materiality. Just as, in a sense, there is no geometrical point, but as many structurally different points as there are methods of deriving them from different figures, so every spirit derives its reality and nature from a particular type of universal synthesis.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe

#material #spirit #individuality #spirituality #noosphere #quotes #Chardin #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin #A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is: maybe not. But there is an 'I' in independence, individuality and integrity." -- George Carlin

#George Carlin #individualism #individuality #independence #integrity #religion is a mental illness

[abnormoinfo]

always a good idea to practice folding into yourself

#drawing #nigredo #melancholy #mutation #death #individuality #loneliness

[entheognosis]

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#ursula k. le guin #individuality