Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

Man is an end in himself.

For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation.

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would-be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

How can can one defend the sober virtues of Protestant individualism by disaffiliating from the world?

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.