Paul Tillich Quotes

Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.

We have always a right to correct ancient errors and to establish what is more conformable to reason and convenience

Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you are an individual. You are only a cog in the wheel, just a part in the vast mechanism, just a small part of the mob - not an individual in your own beauty, in your own right. I am absolutely against compromise. Death is far more beautiful than a life of compromise.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone wanted to fit in. It was all about having the same pair of trainers and the same pair of jeans. That's fatal. Whereas the Eighties you would never be seen in the same pair of jeans that somebody else was wearing.

I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am

I think people are looking for an alternative because in addition to there being sort of a myopic, lemming - like ants on a sugar cube mentality on this DNS attack story by many in the media, there's just this culture of sameness. Everybody sounds the same.

All art is based on non-conformity.

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.

I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with whatever everyone else does.

Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the dragqueen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all other dragqueens; like the functionalist, he has an identity - a female; he tries to define all his troubles away - but still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman, highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively to the man-made feminine stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted mannerisms.