Self-Consciousness and Individualism• Opening statement of Rousseaus Confessions, first published in 1781—"I am not made like anyone I have seen; I darebelieve that I am not made like anyone in existence.If I am not superior, at least I am different.”•“What lies behind us and what lies before us aretiny matters compared to what lies withinus.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Romanticwriter).