Individual Life Quotes

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.