Quotes About Hubris

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

Arrogance leads to ignorance, because it colors one's perception.

The only sin is pride.

You know, there's pride, and then there's stupidity

Mingling grandiosity and short-sightedness in dangerous measure.

There's pride and then there's stupidity.

For where men have made the earth that is trodden underfoot, and have largely veiled the heavens themselves, it is but natural that they should think that they have made everything, and that it is they who rule it.

Donald Trump was building a pyramid in the Nevada desert to house his eventual remains. When done, it will be ten meters taller than the Great Pyramid at Giza.

The gods always bring down those mortals who get too arrogant, demanding, or inflated

The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.

Actaeon who saw the goddess naked among the leaves and his hounds tore him A little knowledge, a pebble from the shingle A drop from the oceans: who would have dreamed this infinitely little too much.

And the secret is, I lowered my voice, as at a poetry reading, he was right! It is vanity, it is pride! It is the hubris of rationalism to always attack the prophet, the mystic, the god. It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us.

Again and again in his career, Hamilton committed the same political error: he never knew when to stop, and the resulting excesses led him into irremediable indiscretions.

Is it hubris to believe we all live epics?

one of her recent letters asks, Is it hubris to believe we all live epics? (Perhaps it is, but I suspect she's not actually counting on me for an answer.)

Well, we all hold history differently inside us. For Swede such episodes retold themselves into a seamless and momentous narrative; she had a Homeric grasp on the significance of events, and still does; one of her recent letters asks, Is it hubris to believe we all live epics? (Perhaps it is, but I suspect she's not actually counting on me for an answer.)

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

translated into English as Icarus Fallen, she suggested that the condition of modern European man was the condition that Icarus would have been in had he survived the fall.

Little learning is dangerous.

Omnipotence convinces one that all his decisions are infallible. Can you aid a fallen God now that he sees the error of his ways?

Während die Starken sich ruhig einmal irren können, ohne etwas zu verlieren, weil selbst die mächtigsten Menschen noch Menschen sind - ja sogar ihre Irrtümer machen sie nur noch menschlicher -, darf sich, wer sich als Allmacht aufspielt, niemals irren, weil es entweder Allmacht ist oder gar nichts.

Überstrahlst du solche, die sich hochgelehrt im Geist bedünken, bist du rings ein Ärgernis. (Medeia)

Oh, the enormous conceit of the man!