Quotes of: Superior-man Keyword

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Julie Taymor

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

Frans de Waal

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Mary Douglas

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

Will Durst

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

Joseph Mitchell

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

Sacha Guitry

This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of some infant deity, who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance: it is the work only of some dependent...

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, know...

The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the d...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can be perfected. When desires and passions do not turn into wrongful paths, music can be perfected. Perfect music has its caus...

The Glass Bead Game

...the word “fine”. As in “I’m fine”, “it’s fine”, “that looks fine”, etc. For a man the word fine has, tops, three or four meanings and that’s only because of the fairly recent edition of “Dang, girl! You look fine!” Otherw...

It's Called Helping...You're Welcome

When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh ...

David Hume

Dualism is the closest human feeling, but it is not necessarily the highest human philosophy. On the contrary, all great philosophies have been monistic. Man experiences the world dualistically, but monism is the essence of all human thinking. Philos...

Alija Izetbegovic

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

William Butler Yeats

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

H. L. Mencken

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Mason Cooley

The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

Mike McCue

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.

John Clayton