A quotation from Hazlitt, William

It is erroneous to tie down individual genius to ideal models. Each person should do that, not which is best in itself, even supposing this coudl be known, but that which he can do best, which he will find out if left to himself. Spenser could not have written Paradise Lost, nor Milton the Faerie Queene. Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
“Thoughts on Taste”, Edinburgh Magazine (1819-07)

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"Thoughts on Taste", Edinburgh Magazine (1819-07) - Hazlitt, William | WIST Quotations

It is erroneous to tie down individual genius to ideal models. Each person should do that, not which is best in itself, even supposing this could be known, but that which he can do best, which he will find out if left to himself. Spenser could not...

"𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕨𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕣𝕧𝕖𝕪 𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕤...𝕨𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕠𝕟 𝕠𝕓𝕤𝕖𝕣𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕞𝕠𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 𝕦𝕡 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕩𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕦𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕓𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤... 𝕎𝕖 𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕗𝕠𝕠𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕘𝕣𝕠𝕨𝕟, 𝕨𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕔𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖, 𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕓𝕦𝕚𝕝𝕥. 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕝𝕖𝕕𝕘𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕗𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕓𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕦𝕤 𝕓𝕪 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕡𝕖𝕠𝕡𝕝𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙...𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕔𝕙 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕕. 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕝 𝕔𝕒𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕨𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕓𝕖 𝕡𝕠𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕖𝕕... 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕦𝕒𝕝, 𝕚𝕗 𝕝𝕖𝕗𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕓𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕙 𝕨𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕣𝕖𝕞𝕒𝕚𝕟 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕞𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕓𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕥-𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕒 𝕕𝕖𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕨𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕝𝕪 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕚𝕧𝕖. 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕦𝕒𝕝 𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕙𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕟𝕚𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕒𝕤, 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕤𝕠 𝕞𝕦𝕔𝕙 𝕚𝕟 𝕧𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕦𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕦𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪, 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕤 𝕒 𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕙𝕦𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕤𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕥𝕪."

——𝔸𝕝𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕥 𝔼𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕚𝕟

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What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory. | Quanta Magazine

Krakauer and Flack, in collaboration with colleagues such as Nihat Ay of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, realized that they’d need to turn to information theory to formalize their principle of the individual “as kind of a verb.” To them, an individual was an aggregate that “preserved a measure of temporal integrity,” propagating a close-to-maximal amount of information forward in time.

Their formalism, which they published in Theory in Biosciences in March, is based on three axioms. One is that individuality can exist at any level of biological organization, from the subcellular to the social. A second is that individuality can be nested — one individual can exist inside another. The most novel (and perhaps most counterintuitive) axiom, though, is that individuality exists on a continuum, and entities can have quantifiable degrees of it.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-an-individual-biology-seeks-clues-in-information-theory-20200716/