The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex when in fact men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror he sees a monkey.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men who are after all imperfect instruments working for their fulfilment.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Men's indignation it seems is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal the second like being compelled by a superior.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation the world supplied the first model while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals but like God Himself if I may venture to say it.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

Incongruity they say is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin usually in solitude.

Hope is a flatterer but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut as well as the palace of his superior.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior sensitive soul.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him no error without evil.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.