Quotes About Comparison

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal .

We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity.

One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

The strongest and most evil spirits have so far done the most to advance humanity: again and again they relumed the passions that were going to sleep—all ordered society puts the passions to sleep—and they reawakened again and again the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of the pleasure in what is new, daring, untried; they compelled men to pit opinion against opinion, model against model.

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Naked have I seen both of them, the greatest man and the smallest man. All too similar are they still to each other. Verily, even the greatest found I all too human.

Whom do you call Bad?-Him who always wants to put others to shame.

Diese räucherigen, stubenwarmen, verbrauchten, vergrünten, vergrämelten Seelen - wie könnte ihr Neid mein Glück ertragen!

That Luther's Reformation succeeded in the North suggests that the north of Europe was retarded compared to the south...

Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.

and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.

Wir haben den Begriff Zweck erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ist ein Stück Verhängniss, man gehört zum Ganzen, man ist im Ganzen, - es giebt Nichts, was unser Sein richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen könnte, denn das hiesse das Ganze richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen... Aber es giebt Nichts ausser dem Ganzen!

This man was my equal—no, I admitted grudgingly, my superior—and I hated him for it. I hated him because I knew that in his dream of power no one must suffer. I hated him because, once, I had been weak enough to share his feelings.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.

Weak men in high positions surround themselves with little men, in order that they may seem great by comparison.

Fulton J. Sheen "Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked." ? Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox.

It is only when we recognize our inferiority that we become superior to others.

La prétendue baguette des fées était moins puissante que ne l'est aujourd'hui la science des hommes.

All that was needed was a shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera

I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.