#2,720

Individualism is the cradle of vulgarity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437

#2,657

Where even the last vestige of feudal ties disappears, the increasing social isolation of the individual and his increasing helplessness fuse him into a totalitarian mass.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,639

The atomization of society derives from the modern division of labor: where nobody knows specifically for whom he works, nor who specifically works for him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 426

#2,501

Eroticism and Gnosticism are the individual’s recourse against the anonymity of mass society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 402

#1,976

Liberalism proclaims the right of the individual to degrade oneself, provided one’s degradation does not impede the degradation of one’s neighbor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 322

#1,971

Individualism proclaims differences but promotes similarities.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 321

#1,968

Individualism is not the antithesis of totalitarianism but a condition of it.
Totalitarianism and hierarchy, on the other hand, are terminal positions of contrary movements.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 321

#1,965

Socialism arose as nostalgia for the social unity destroyed by bourgeois atomism.
But it did not understand that social unity is not the totalitarian condensing of individuals, but the systematic totality of a hierarchy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,563

Individuals, in modern society, are each day more similar to one another and each day more estranged from one another.
Identical monads clashing with each other with ferocious individualism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 261

4th of July

The best thing about the United States is a confused, but profound, sense of the importance of each man. It is like a kind of primitive humanism, a kind of elemental liberalism.
For a certain type of American there easily sprouts up a demand for independence, an impossibility of accepting anything his conscience does not ordain.
The danger of that naive individualism lies in the confidence it bestows upon itself. It thus prepares the ground for the germination of ridiculous doctrines and sects, which are not tempered by any criticism, nor disturbed by any irony.
The inevitable reverse of that quality is provincialism.

Notas, p.60

#1,119

Individualism and collectivism are both social repercussions of the belief in the immortality of the soul.
The individual turns in on himself, examines himself, observes himself, and discovers his individuality, or he turns out from himself, projects himself, disperses himself, and confuses himself with a collectivity, according to whether he believes, or does not believe, in an incorruptible tribunal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 197

#944

Religious individualism forgets the neighbor; communitarianism forgets God.
The more serious error is always the latter.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 171

#715

The three hypostases of egoism are: individualism, nationalism, collectivism.
The democratic trinity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 130

#705

Doctrinaire individualism is dangerous not because it produces individuals, but because it suppresses them.
The product of the doctrinaire individualism of the 19th century is the mass man of the 20th century.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 128

#569

Individualism degenerates into the beatification of caprice.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 107

#355

Modern individualism is nothing but claiming as one’s own the opinions everyone shares.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 75