Superhuman Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

  David Bowie

  Men, Demise, Stones

  Song: Quicksand, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

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• And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Men, Hair

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• Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism is… precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Atheism, Belief

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• There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.

  Kedar Joshi

  Real, Computer, Consciousness

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• I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

  David Bowie

  Denial, Korean, Overweight

  "The beauty world pays tribute to David Bowie" by Sian Ranscombe, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 11, 2016.

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• I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

  David Bowie

  Time, Ideas, Realization

  "Sermon From the Savoy". NME Magazine, September 29, 1984.

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• I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

  David Bowie

  People, Timeless Music, Amazed

  "Cheap Seats: Bowie talks busts". Interview with Eddie Brown, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. April 27, 2013.

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• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  Orlando Bloom

  Angel, Samurai, Saws

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• There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

  David Bowie

  Knowing, World, Terror

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• I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

  David Bowie

  Mother, Sex, Thinking

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• Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

  Goran Visnjic

  Character, Littles, Stuff

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• To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

  David Bowie

  Couple, Life And Death, Musician

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him. It is very natural and very human behaviour. But it is not superhuman.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Jesus, Eye, Tears

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• To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

  Bertrand Russell

  Silly, Simple, Errors

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.66, Routledge

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• The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.

  Ani DiFranco

  Children, Animal, Feminist

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• Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Moving On, Encouraging

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• The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature.

  Carl Jung

  Angel, Men, Hands

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.263, Princeton University Press

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• For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

  Eric Ambler

  Science, Law, Internet

  Eric Ambler (2001). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, Vintage

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• Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

  Albert Camus

  Challenges, Age, Peculiar

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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• Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

  David Bowie

  Challenges, Music And Life, Life Is

  FM Observer Interview, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

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• The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, People, Joy

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• Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Effort, Revolution, Social

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1971). “Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries”, p.60, Manchester University Press

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• A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

  Max Horkheimer

  Careers, Interesting, Doe

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• Genius: the superhuman in man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Genius

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• I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

  David Bowie

  Graduation, Travel, Promise

  "Mourning David Bowie, Dead at 69" by Nicole Silverberg, www.gq.com. January 11, 2016.

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