Personality is the knowledge that we are apart from the rest of the universe. - Ernest Dimnet

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Every day you waste a chance, many chances in fact, of getting at your innermost consciousness by expressing yourself as you see yourself, and I say it is a pity because it makes you, year after year and day after day more like anybody else and more anonymous.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance alludes to this weakness in the frequently heard phrase: PEOPLE DO NOT THINK.