Superior Man Quotes - Page 4

• Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

  Confucius

  Truth, Knowledge, Confucianism

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Confucianism

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

  Confucius

  Wise, Character, Men

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• Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.

  David Deida

  Men, Purpose, Cheat

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

  Confucius

  Achievement, Desire, Done

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Men, Civilization

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• The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

  Confucius

  Men, May, Study

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.193, Courier Corporation

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• The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

  Confucius

  Men, Soul, Inferiors

  "A Little Book of Aphorisms". Book by Frederick B. Wilcox, p. 185, 1947.

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• The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Men, Easy

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• A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

  Confucius

  Men, Profound, World

  Analects ch. 4, v. 10 (translation by Wing-Tsit Chan)

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• The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

  Confucius

  Heart, Character, Men

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• A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

  Confucius

  Men, Intelligence, May

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

  Confucius

  Inspiration, Moving, Men

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• While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Equality, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers.

  Knut Hamsun

  Memories, Men, Majority

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• The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.

  Confucius

  Regret, Mean, Men

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.288

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• The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Integrity, Men, Average

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• It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Men, Talent, United

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• A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties

  Confucius

  Men, Anxiety, Superiors

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• Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies, and will not only make you a better sailor, but a superior man. Professional studies are not to be neglected; but, on the other hand, take care how you fall into the common error of believing they are the remedy for all the ills of life.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Religious, Believe, Fall

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.444

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• The superior man limits his achievements.

  Confucius

  Men, Limits, Superiors

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• The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

  Confucius

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

  Confucius

  Men, Superiors

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.27, Delphi Classics

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• The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.

  Confucius

  Men, Office, Mind

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• The superior man is never in anyone's way.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Way, Superiors

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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