Superior Power

Famous quotes containing the words superior and/or power:

“The superior person can find peace in poverty; the philosophical mind accepts the will of Heaven.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will ... is a shapeless world.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)