Quotes About Superhuman

It never can be the virtue of a man to wish to be more than man; and every religion which sets a stamp of special approval on superhuman, and therefore unhuman, virtue, erects a wall of separation between the gospel which it preaches and the world which it should convert.

The capacity is there, the crisis is the catalyst. But is crisis the only catalyst? And how long are we able to sustain extraordinary levels of performance? Some of this potential can be accessed by coaching, and performance can be sustainable, perhaps not at superhuman levels but certainly at levels far higher than we generally accept.

Croire qu'il lui appartient de dépasser sa condition et de s'orienter vers celle de surhomme, c'est oublier qu'il a du mal à tenir le coup en tant qu'homme, et qu'il n'y parvient qu'à force de tendre sa volonté, son ressort, au maximum.

You need superhuman performances at the World Cup.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as a superhuman Law, it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

I'm a huge fan of 'The Six Million Dollar Man' and I love the episodes where they would cross over with 'The Bionic Woman.'

I am a superman: hard, cold, terrible, without feelings and without conscience.

I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.

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 is… precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position

E era apenas o contraste dessas duas entidades: o Ser e a Sombra, a Luz e as Trevas, que impressionara o jovem com a diferença que havia entre elas, ou seja, o homem e o sobre-humano.

Jesus is not a superhuman. He is God. The beloved, divine Son of Him who occupies the throne of all creation.

But Phoebus Apollo called to blazing Ares, "Ares, Ares, destroyer of men, reeking blood, stormer of ramparts, can't you go and drag that man from the fighting? That daredevil Diomedes, he'd fight Father Zeus! He's just assaulted Love, he stabbed her wrist— like something superhuman he even charged at me!

I am Ms. Marvel," she said, "a registered superhuman. Real name, Carol Danvers. I'm here to assist you. Please stand back and allow me to—" Tony

Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.

The art of creating tools is essentially superhuman-either divine or demoniac (for the smith also forges murderous weapons).

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semi-human, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, 'divine'.

It's always easy to explain the unknown by postulating a superhuman and arbitrary will.

He was a glittering superhuman creature who must have been put on earth by a perverse God to remind homely women like herself that some things were unobtainable.

The Target algorithm hadn't produced a superhuman leap of logic, but a very human one: it figured out exactly what you or I or anyone else would also have figured out, given the same information.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author and New Yorker writer, has suggested that as a society we value natural, effortless accomplishment over achievement through effort. We endow our heroes with superhuman abilities that led them inevitably toward their greatness.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.