Superhuman Quotes

• To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive, Being Strong, Dream

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.295, Courier Corporation

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• The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Nature, Dark

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Umpires, Effort, Classic

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• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

  Vernor Vinge

  Mean, Years, Eras

  "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Vernor Vinge's remarks presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 30-31, 1993.

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• All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Men, Insanity

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• I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

  David Bowie

  Music, Stars, Water

  "'I'm an Instant Star': The Definitive List of David Bowie's Best Quotes". nationalpost.com. January 11, 2016.

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  Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

  David Bowie

  Tomorrow

  “The Next Day” by Ryan Dombal Senior, pitchfork.com. March 11, 2013.

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• When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

  Kedar Joshi

  Science, Theory, Humans

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• To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

  Aldous Huxley

  Judgment, Wit, Admission

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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• All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can.

  Eddie Izzard

  Thinking, Humans, Can Do

  "Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

  David Bowie

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

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• Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

  David Bowie

  Moments, Evolve

  "David Bowie: What I've Learned". www.esquire.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

  David Bowie

  Glam Rock, Life And Death, Music And Life

  Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

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• When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by human interests, desires, beliefs, notions, and prejudices, just like other people. They have neither superhuman wisdom nor extraordinary virtue.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Government, People, Judging

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• It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

  Albert Einstein

  Character, Fate, Science

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

  Debbi Fields

  Inspirational, Believe, Belief

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• The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Real, Ideas, Personality

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• Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

  Agatha Christie

  Evil, Literature, Humans

  Agatha Christie (1985). “The pale horse”, Pocket

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• As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

  David Bowie

  Two, Long, Music And Life

  "David Bowie, 21st-Century Entrepreneur". Interview with Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 2002.

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• Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Struggle, Order

  The Female Eunuch (1970)

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• A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Writing, Men, Order

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• The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

  Willem Dafoe

  Bombs, Stuff, Pumpkin

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