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Updated: July 15, 2025
There is room, I think, in the world for both kinds of individualist, though the contemplative individualists are in the minority; and perhaps it must be so, because a certain lassitude is characteristic of them.
They feel a bit superior to Individualists for the way they have of seeing the universal in the particular, and of being picturesque and personal. Socialists are not picturesque and personal. They do not think in pictures. Then they wonder why they do not make more headway. Crowds and great men and children think in pictures. A hero pictures greatness to them. Then they want it for themselves.
It added a fresh temper in many ways, and helped men to a franker type of self-expression; and was, as we may expect, something apart from the keen need of obliviousness in the great modern individualists, those who were seeking direct contact with subject.
The rapid succession of sentences came to an end, and the colour which had mounted to her cheeks slowly subsided. 'I feel, he said, 'that I can only vaguely understand what you mean. But is it not possible that you are looking at it too much from the standpoint of an individualist? 'Women are all individualists, she broke in; 'or they are until society breaks their spirit.
These also are labels. The 'individualist' is a member of a mob as fully as any other man: and the mob of individualists is the most unpleasing, because it has the least character. Nietzsche was a mob-man, just as Bergson is an intellectualist. We cannot escape the label, but let it be one which carries no distinction, and arouses no self-consciousness.
Individualists clamour for a large and vigilant police force. That is how the nineteenth century looks to us. Most of the mountains are in labour with ridiculous mice, but the spheres are shaken by storms in intellectual teacups. The Pre-Raffaelites call in question the whole tradition of the Classical Renaissance, and add a few more names to the heavy roll of notoriously bad painters.
"Our philosophy is quite irrelevant. The essential is, that our philosophy should spring from our point of view and not return upon itself to explain our point of view. A philosophy about intuition is somewhat less likely to be intuitive than any other. We must avoid having a platform." "But at least," said Appleplex, "we are..." "Individualists. No!! nor anti-intellectualists.
I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Æschyluses to my intellectual integrity." These quotations have to do with the personal life. Let me next illustrate the individualism of the eighteen-thirties by the attitude of two famous individualists toward the prosaic question of paying taxes to the State.
The office of the Tocsin was the constant scene of debate and dispute between the two rival camps in the Anarchist party the organisationists and the individualists. Bonafede and Gnecco belonged to the former, while most of the active staff of the Tocsin myself among others adhered to the latter section.
It is a feature of our democratic form of government thanks be! Germany does or did the other thing. Germany made careers for her young men, instead of young men for careers, with the result that she also made machines out of them. America is a nation of individualists, which is what makes America what it is, and our schools and school systems are responsible.
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