The beauty of life does not reside in certainty or conformity. It resides in the infinite possibilities of uncertainty.

The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear.

For true liberation, you do not need to fight. You simply have to change your thoughts and drift away from conformity, comfort, security, and certainty of life and embrace and enjoy the possibilities and magnificence of the uncertainty of life.

A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.

A formal education will teach you how to conform with society. Self-education will teach you how to get out of conformity so that you can fill your life with adventure and beauty.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Unanimity is worse than censorship. Censorship obliges us to hold our own truth silent; unanimity forces us to repeat the truth of others, even though we do not believe it... . It dissolves our own personalities into a general, monotonous chorus.

Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.

When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

It may well be that a society's greatest madness seems normal to itself.