#superhuman

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#device #efforts #generating #major #necessary

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#damn #effort #human effort #results #superhuman

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. ↗

— Doug Larson

#err #human #superhuman #to err is human

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#human intelligence #intelligence #means #superhuman #technological

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#angelic #created #elves #graceful #human strength

Genius: the superhuman in man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#man #superhuman

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#belief #coherence #developing #eternity #growing

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#achieved #any #anyone #as far as #barack