“We'll know homo superior when he comes — by definition. He'll be the one we won't be able to euth.”

— Philip K. Dick

Source: The Golden Man (1954)

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Philip K. Dick 278

American author 1928–1982

John Fowles book The French Lieutenant's Woman

Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman

“A joke is by definition politically incorrect — it assumes a butt, and a certain superiority in the teller. The culture won't put up with that for much longer.”

Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist

"Off the Page: Martin Amis" (2003)
Context: I'd like to be remembered as someone who kept the comic novel going for another generation or so. I fear the comic novel is in retreat. A joke is by definition politically incorrect — it assumes a butt, and a certain superiority in the teller. The culture won't put up with that for much longer.

“A definition of ignorance is not KNOWING what we DO & improvement is handicapped when we don't DO what we KNOW.”

Lupe Fiasco (1982) rapper

Rules 2 Rule

“To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.”

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer

The Question I Get Asked Most Often in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)

“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

The Analects, Chapter I, Other chapters
Context: The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.