Quotes About Superiority

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

When Aristotle said that poetry is superior to history because history only tells us "what Alcibiades did or had done to him," he had in mind history as the mere compilation of facts. To matter, history has to do more. It has to reconnect people, in time, to what Aristotle called the "timeless forms" of nature.

For the German fighter pilot, there was no magic number of sorties or hours, the completion of which guaranteed a return home. He was already home, and in the skies over the Reich he faced an opponent who enjoyed overwhelming superiority. If he survived the first missions and his skills reached those of his opponents, he would fly until fatigue and strain led to a mistake that was more often than not fatal.

Allein schon der Begriff "Toleranz" setzt voraus, dass man von Zuruckgebliebenen umgeben ist, die man tolerieren muss, als waere man selbst der Traeger einer hoeheren, ueberlegenen Kultur, die sich selbst nie hinterfragt.

I have come to the conclusion, by way of various observations, that man is composed of a soul and a beast. These two beings are absolutely distinct, but closely fitted together, or one on top of the other, that the soul must have a certain superiority over the beast to be in a position to draw a distinction between them.

We feel a greater pride in conversing with those who are superior to us in honor, than with those who are on a level with us.

Au diable la reconnaissance si elle est dispensée par des gens qui ne t'arrivent pas à la cheville.

The United States was a cesspool of egotistical, entitled children, but Texans took it to the next level. Incredibly arrogant, not only believing in their superiority but branding and marketing it to the world. Texas's love of God, guns, and giant pickup trucks was in effect a celebration of the primary sources of the problems in the world today.

Si ganas es porque los otros son peores, no por un mérito. [...] Uno triunfa no por su genialidad, sino por su menosmalidad. Por ser menos malo que los otros.

Computers think that they are smarter than us. But they're not!

it was the smile that said, 'I know best. I know better than you.' The smile that said, 'I'm safe here and you're not.' The smile that said, 'I have a dick, so I win.

We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I'd bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I'd never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you'll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.

?Let your pretence of arrogance grow big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you.

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

Having the best doesn't make you the best but producing the best makes you the best

«No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.»

Advising gives a great illusion of superiority

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

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

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Envy suggests inferiority.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.