Superhuman Quotes - Page 5

• Superhuman power is not strong enough.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Power, Enough

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.479, Manonmani Publishers

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• Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue." He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is all I have to preach. Doctrines have been expounded enough. There are books by the million. Oh, for an ounce of practice!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lying, Father, Yoga

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3828, Manonmani Publishers

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• The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Names, Ideas, Oneness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.12, New World Library

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• My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman. It's good advice. People are snowed by celebrities all the time. In academia people have this idea of achieving stardom - publishing in the best journals, being at the best university, writing on the hot topic everyone else is writing about. But that's what my father told me not to do. He taught me that you have to pursue things that sound right to you.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Father, Believe, Writing

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• Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry Blair. What I hadn't expected was for the backstory to make so much sense. Usually science is the first causality of superhero stories, tossed aside with the breezy rationalization: 'Hey, it's comics!' Only Superhuman is, to my knowledge, the first hard science superhero story. And the Story is the better for it.

  Mike W. Barr

  Writing, Knowing, Superhero

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• Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

  Rajneesh

  Blessing, Ordinary, Different

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• Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.

  Savitri Devi

  Real, Humble, Sight

  Savitri Devi (2010). “The Lightning and the Sun”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act would have the power to turn our problems around. Nothing could be further from the truth. Life is cumulative. Whatever results we're experiencing in our lives are the accumulation of a host of small decisions we've made as individuals, as a family, as a community, as a society, and as a species.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Community, Decision

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• Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dark, Civilization, Hydrogen Bomb

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.

  William James

  Letting Go, Spiritual, College

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.

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• The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Eye, Self Confidence

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.87

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• genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Character, Long, Brain

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

  Gene Cernan

  People, Trying, Heroic

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• I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

  Karen Russell

  Swim, Ponies, Desperate

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• To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Biblical, Fate, Errors

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• I have a very healthy growth of both head and facial hair. People always want to attribute further superhuman powers to me. It's funny the way the audience really seems to want me, Nick the actor, to exhibit the same machismo as Ron Swanson.

  Nick Offerman

  Hair, People, Healthy

  Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.believermag.com. October 2012.

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• A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
  Breathless mouths may summon;
  I hail the superhuman;
  I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.

  William Butler Yeats

  Greatness, Moisture, Mouths

  "Byzantium" l. 15 (1933)

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• Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

  Charlie Sheen

  Hero, Athlete, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

  Albert Camus

  Meaningful, Hope, Men

  Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never...yes, never...sell yourself short.

  David J. Schwartz

  Motivational, Successful, Thinking

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• Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

  William Joyce

  Heroism, Germany, Belief

  William Joyce (2013). “Twilight Over England”, p.66, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.

  Christopher Dawson

  Imperfect World, Long, Evil

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• The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo, and aureole are used in Christian religious art.

  Manly Hall

  Christian, Religious, Art

  Manly P. Hall (2003). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages”, p.123, Penguin

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• The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Waiting Rooms, Hands, Superhero

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Masters, Masterpiece, Conductor

  Source: www.pbs.org

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