Superhuman Quotes
96 quotes by 83 authors
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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…
— Orlando Bloom
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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…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity…
— Woodrow Wilson
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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…
— Albert Einstein
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Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not…
— John Keats
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...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige…
— Alec Douglas-Home
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People would be in hysterics if they saw that. It's like, wow, he's a superhuman moron.... So he wears lipstick, has a little bouffant, and…
— Robert Pattinson
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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact,…
— James Dean
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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…
— Max Horkheimer
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We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity,…
— Kenzo Tange
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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…
— Bill Maher
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
— Gustave Flaubert
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The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
— Gaston Bachelard
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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
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Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
— Ernest Shackleton
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Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch…
— Henry Petroski
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Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality.…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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