Importance of Individuality (An excerpt from "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostovesky)

I like them to take nonsense. That man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth. I am a man because i err. You never reach any truth without making 14 mistakes and very likely 114, and a fine thing too in its own way. But we can't even make mistakes on our own account. Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense and i will kiss you for it. To go wrong in ones own way is better than to go right in someone else's. In first case you are a man and in a second case you are no better than a bird.