Individuum Quotes

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be. (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
The negation of cognition thus correlates on the verbal level. For when those two pillars of Western humanism, individual cognition and evolutionary continuity, lose their meaning, language loses meaning. Existence ceases for the individuum as we know it, and all becomes chaos. You cease to be a unique entity unto yourself, but exist simply as chaos. And not just the chaos that is you; you chaos is also my chaos. To wit, existence is communication, and communication, existence. View quote
Haruki Murakami
The very possibility that there may exist timeless truths is a reproach to the life of laxness and indifference which modern egotism encourages. ... Ideas which have their reference to the periphery or individuum, to the particular in space and time, are false and stand in the way of integration. View quote
Richard Weaver