It was supposed that there are born from time to time supermen distinguished by physical marks who become either universal monarchs (cakra-vartin) or teachers of the truth.
Buddhist monks are men of higher aspirations than others: they try to make themselves supermen by cultivating not the forceful and domineering part of their nature but the gentle, charitable and intelligent part.
These animals, for which we have such contempt, are freer than men; they are the Supermen of Nietzsche--Nietzsche whose brain mirrored both a Prometheus and a Napoleon.
He had never stared into the maddening mirror which turned poets into Supermen and--sometimes monsters.
Here, indeed, were the supermen of the mad German prophet and philosopher come to life, refuting all classic tragedy.
Two vast and splendid shapes loomed upon the scene, supermen whose silken calves quivered with unaccustomed haste; at a sign from Mr. Brimberly they seized upon the Old Un and, despite ghoulish threats, solemnly bore him off.
By his ruling it is only supermen that are privileged to carry their will through.
I am above the silly supermen as they are above mere men.
The Browns gratified their own sense of superiority, in turn, by admiration of the supermenwho had vanquished the Gray generals consigned to the oblivion of the basement.
Therefore, they were the supermen of sagas who incarnate a people's valor.
Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, like Rogozhin in The Idiot, Stavrogin in The Possessed were supermen before Nietzsche, but all half mad.
A crew of ten carefully screened, psyched and trained near-supermen was selected, and the ship was launched on a sixteen-year round-trip to Centaurus.
Two years out, the ten near-supermen became ten raving maniacs.
The Solar Government sent out a ship containing five supermen and five superwomen.
Solemn supermen and imperial diplomatists are proud of restraining their anger.
All this simply means that the Church preferred to use its Supermen and to use its Tolstoyans.
Never before have we supermen of the Fenachrone been so insulted and so belittled!
We supermen of the Fenachrone will allow no vessel of ours, with its secrets unknown to any others of the Universe, to fall into the hands of any of the lesser breeds of men.
I think you must be one of the supermen one reads about.
The fact that it never even occurred to George Emerson he was being offensively patronizing shows the stern stuff of which these supermen are made.
The trouble with these supermen is that they lack reticence.
The work of the supermen can best be done from higher planes than the physical.
While the scientist, still lacking the absolutely conclusive evidence, goes only to the point of asserting that it is reasonable and probable that supermen exist, the occultist asserts it as a fact within his personal knowledge.
Compared to the descent of suchsupermen into mundane spheres a mere physical death is a trifling sacrifice indeed.
It is sometimes asked why, if the supermen exist, those who are in incarnation do not come out into the world and give us ocular evidence of the fact.
The supermen are not myths nor figments of imagination.
In brief, Nietzsche dreamed no dream of all mankind converted into a race of supermen: the only vision he saw was one of supermen at the top.
Nietzsche believed that the ultimate mission and function of human marriage was the breeding of a race of supermen and he saw very clearly that fortuitous pairing would never bring this about.
But indeed the Supermen (of whom I have met many) have generally been more weak in the head than in the moral conduct; they have simply offered the first fancy which occupied their minds as the new morality.
In Gloria's collapse before her bullying lover there is something at once cold and unclean; it calls up all the modern supermen with their cruel and fishy eyes.
These supermen even become rationalistic petty gods, with thick skulls and cold hearts.
There is the exception, of course, of a few specially clever specimens of the homo occidentalis of yesterday and the day before--supermen whose God is dead, wherefore they themselves become gods.
There might be supermen but there would be no superwomen: if the supermen were true to their type they would have to crush and to dominate the women.
He already had instilled into the hearts and souls of the men and women who worked with him that consecration of purpose and enthusiasm for the work in hand which rendered so many of them, under emergency, supermen and superwomen.
Thus the world is recreated With the Supermen of dreams, Footsteps onward pressing, Plashing oars on crystal streams.
Thus the world is recreated With the Supermen of time, Bearing on in royal pageant, All of fullness and of prime.
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