Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.
No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.
What is unique about humans is their individuality.
Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
Every being has flaws; the potential is always there to connect to the light or to darkness.
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.
Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.