The individual · Skopia

Books

10

Essays

Michel de Montaigne

1580★ 9.3

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

1859★ 8.2

Light in August

William Faulkner

1932★ 7.2

The Myth of Sisyphus

1942★ 7.2

The Rainbow

1915★ 7.0

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

1952★ 7.0

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Quotes

8

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

2015

★ 3.5

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty · 1859

★ 2.3

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man...a man stands alone at a plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Looks, throws, catches, hustles. Part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on. If his team don't field...what is he? You follow me? No one.

The Untouchables · 1987

★ 2.0

Business literature

In the past the man has been first. In the future the System must be first.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

1911

★ 1.9

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