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Letter "S" » superiority
«There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Attitude
| Keywords:
degrees, solving, superiority, The Variations, Thousands, variation, variations
«The person, who causes the downfall of a noble woman... who causes loss to his friend...who despite of his superiority is ignorant; is called a fallen man.»
«The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows»
Author: Bernard Berenson
| About:
Art,
Passion
| Keywords:
depict, depicted, depicting, depicts, disdainful, endowing, healing, measureless, reconciling, rejoices, superiority
«The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
insomniac, insomniacs, refuge, sleeping, superiority
«Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.»
Author: Akhenaton
| Keywords:
competitor, contest, crowned, depress, dishonest, excelling, honour, scorn, superiority, unworthy, with success
«Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
codified, codifying, decreeing, decrees, destroying, do away with, inferior, inferiority, superiority
«Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Pride,
Shame
| Keywords:
achieves, attaches, automatically, esteemed, estimation, estimations, highly, humiliation, humiliations, inferior, involved, losing, rating, ratings, sets, shame, status, superiority, undue
«The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
any, can-do, creature, creatures, Do, fact, from, His, inferiority, intellectual, knows, man, moral, Moral right, other, proves, right, superiority, The Creatures, wrong, wronging
«There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.»
«Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes -- we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
abstract, alas, crowd, gathering, gatherings, Gathering The, Human eye, impression, millions, ordinarily, sensual, superiority, The Crowd
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