#individuality — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #individuality, aggregated by home.social.
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The individual is the "atomic unit" of #morality. Sort of like the atom is to chemistry. From a moral standpoint, the level of the individual is really where all the action is. The best place to find it, to exercise it, to appreciate it, and to improve it. Each instance in its own (possibly unique) way.
A corollary: we should exercise caution whenever joining or supporting groups or collectives. Since all but the most courageous of them will want our morals always to closely match theirs in order for our contributions to be optimized. Or perhaps even noticed.
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
In addition to, not as a substitute for, individual responsibility, there is a collective responsibility.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 1 “Boyhood and Youth” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #collective #individual #individuality #mutualresponsibility #personalresponsibility #responsibility #togetherness #socialcontract
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
People do not always remember that politics, economics, and social organisation generally, belong in the realm of means, not ends. Our political and social thinking is prone to what may be called the “administrator’s fallacy,” by which I mean the habit of looking upon a society as a systematic whole, of a sort that is thought good if it is pleasant to contemplate as a model of order, a planned organism with parts neatly dove-tailed into each other. But a society does not, or at least should not, exist to satisfy an external survey, but to bring a good life to the individuals who compose it. It is in the individuals, not in the whole, that ultimate value is to be sought. A good society is a means to a good life for those who compose it, not something having a separate kind of excellence on its own account.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 6, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/838…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #administration #control #economics #goodlife #government #individual #individuality #management #order #organization #planning #politics #society #system
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
In our own day […] there has been too much of a tendency towards authority, and too little care for the preservation of initiative. Men in control of vast organisations have tended to be too abstract in their outlook, to forget what actual human beings are like, and to try to fit men to systems rather than systems to men.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 6, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/838…
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Don't be afraid of being different. Be afraid of being the same as everyone else. Be yourself.
#BeYourself #StandOut #Individuality #DareToBeDifferent #Authenticity #UniquelyYou #OwnYourStory #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes
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Don't be afraid of being different. Be afraid of being the same as everyone else. Be yourself.
#BeYourself #EmbraceUniqueness #DifferentIsBeautiful #Original #StandOut #AuthenticSelf #NonConformist #Individuality #SelfLove #BeUnique #MotivationDaily #DeepQuotes #FYP #InstagramReels #TruthOfLife #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes