Inferiors Quotes - Page 3

• To be human means to feel inferior.

  Alfred Adler

  Mean, Humanity, Feels

  Alfred Adler (1998). “Social Interest: Adler's Key to the Meaning of Life”, Oneworld Publications Limited

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• Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".

  Hans Asperger

  Autism, Abnormal, Lines

  "Neurotribes review - the evolution of our understanding of autism" by Saskia Baron, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2015.

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• Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Men, Two

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.439, Princeton University Press

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• The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Class, Ideas, Envy

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.5085, Delphi Classics

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• If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Years, Effort

  "Mein Kampf".

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• The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

  John Dryden

  Heaven, Liberty, Life Is

  John Dryden, George Gilfillan (1857). “Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”

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• By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Animal, Goal

  Joseph Brodsky's opening remarks as United States Poet Laureate, October 1991.

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• It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish I’d been smart enough to understand that when I was an adolescent.

  David Foster Wallace

  Smart, Book, Years

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• Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Powerful, Cat, Eye

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.

  Confucius

  Giving Up, Powerful, Character

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Work, Stress, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.250, Knopf

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• I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

  Horace Greeley

  Men, Rights, Feet

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• Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Work, Advice

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Men, Meat

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

  Pema Chodron

  Mistake, Self, Suffering

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• It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

  T. H. White

  People, Perfect, Be Good

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• Sam doesn't hesitate for a minute. 'You say, "Mr and Mrs Tavish, you're making me feel inferior. Do you really think I'm inferior or is it just in my mind?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Thinking, Mind, Minutes

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.197, Random House

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• I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Jesus, Sleep

  "Ham On Rye". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1982.

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• A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Income, May

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.55, Wild Jot Press

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• It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, - and of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, - is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole... to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of one's way to invite trouble.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Opening Up, Secret

  "The Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul: An Inquiry Into the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysical Yoga Psychology in the Context of Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology". Book by Joseph Virtue, 2002.

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• The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.

  Che Guevara

  Fighting, Army, Fire

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.

  Walter Raleigh

  Friendship, Wise, Art

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.557

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• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  Irving Layton

  Clever, Arguing, Argument

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Confidence, Sex

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• Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they present:- so various yet so uniform-so vast yet so connected. In thus tracing back to the most remote periods in the physical history of our continents, one system of operations, as the means by which many complex formations have been successively produced, the mind becomes impressed with the singleness of nature's laws; and in this respect, at least, geology is hardly inferior in simplicity to astronomy.

  Roderick Murchison

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Roderick Impey Murchison (1839). “The silurian system, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford etc”, p.574

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