Superiority Quotes - Page 11

• There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Way, Faces

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• As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Pride, Color

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• The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Excellence, Succeed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.246, Penguin

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• The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Science, Names

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• There is no such thing as human superiority.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Humans

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• I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love Is, Superiors

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May Byron, William Hazlitt, James Gillman (2015). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge”, p.362, e-artnow

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• Eternal superiority of the Dandy.
  What is the Dandy?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eternal, Dandy

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.

  Johan Huizinga

  Mean, Numbers, Understanding

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• When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.

  David Hume

  Ideas, Giving, Feelings

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.87, 谷月社

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• Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, People, Giving

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• The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Order, Long, Intellectual

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• To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Aversion, Littles, Merit

  Claude Adrien Helvétius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.366

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• Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Hate, Reflection

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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• It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.

  Josh Billings

  Art, Knows, Superiors

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• He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Friends, Enjoy

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• Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much more ready to accord to man that superiority which he claims; but as the facts stand disclosed by the sacred historian, it appears to me that to say the least, there was as much weakness exhibited by Adam as by Eve. They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Men, Wife, Guilt

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.6

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• Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.

  Mary C. Ames

  Eye, Men, Perfect

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• The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Art, Men, Offering

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• We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Weakness, Inferiority, Persons

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• It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Art, Sacrifice, Technology

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilo fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados - we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Land, Roots, White

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• A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.

  Bruce Lee

  Pride, Men, Worry

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• If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

  Betty Friedan

  Spiritual, Men, Class

  "It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement". Book by Betty Friedan, 1998.

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• A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dog, Peaceful

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• Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Regret, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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