#2,937

An individual is defined less by his contradictions than by the way he comes to terms with them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 469

#2,737

Our life is an anecdote that hides our true personality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440

#2,428

Only God and the central point of my consciousness are not accidental to me.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 391

#2,427

The being one finds oneself to be is also in the end a stranger to us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 391

#1,975

In well-born souls norms become naturalized.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 321

#1,765

The biographer should not confuse his obligation to tell us the how of his subject with the ridiculous pretension of explaining to us the why.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292

#1,684

“Finding himself,” for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 281

#1,668

A person who is not a little absurd turns out to be insufferable.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 278

#1,350

Let us not complain of the soil in which we were born, but rather of the plant we are.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,337

The rapid evolution of a society destroys its customs.
And imposes on the individual, in place of the silent education of traditions, the reins and the whip of laws.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,273

When society is cast entirely in the mold of the state, the person vaporizes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 220

#977

The most to which a man who knows himself can aspire is to be the least repugnant possible.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 176

#908

The punishment of the man who searches for himself is that he finds himself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 165

#776

The common man often has a personality in everyday dealings.
But the effort to express it transforms him into an exponent of fashionable clichés.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 140

#664

Nobody finds himself by searching merely for himself.
Personality is born out of conflict with a norm.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 122

#529

Moral perfection lies in feeling that we cannot do what we ought not to do.
Ethics culminates where the rule appears to be an expression of the person.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 101

#436

The idea of “the free development of personality” seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has developed freely.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 87

#219

Personality, in our time, is the sum total of what impresses the fool.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 55

#218

When today they tell us that someone lacks personality, we know they are speaking of a simple, trustworthy, upright being.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 54

#104

To educate man is to impede the “free expression of his personality.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 39