We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity
It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.
None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification.
I am moving deeper into my own brain.
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.
A sin. . . consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God
You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.
We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.
Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
The opposite of courage is conformity
I propose. . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
. . . he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].
From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.