Quotes About Hubris

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Overconfidence is a curse

Thorn illustrated that there lies a point when bravery shades into arrogance, and arrogance shades into idiocy.

great empires die not by murder, but by suicide.

They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archtype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate — confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate – confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archetype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate – confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archetype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate—confusion between him who worships and that which is worshiped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

Trump? Obama? Putin? Why must we pity the politi-scum addicted to their own infallible "godliness" when there are more entertaining alternatives?

Failing to come to terms with the hubris and destructiveness of that process—or, worse, seeing it as a glorious part of America's supposed greatness—conditions the people of the United States to perpetuate those evils in new forms.

It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.

Oedipus gouges out his eyes, Jocasta hangs herself, both guiltless; the play has come to a harmonious conclusion. Wrote Schiller.

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

Her subject was pride, in all its forms.

It's very hard to argue with someone who thinks he is God because he makes a lot of money.

Arrogance is blindness.

Only a fool will try and take over this world.

Greed and ego are too often the downfall of mankind

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Isaac Cline was a creature of his times. He embodied the hubris of his times and, in many ways, was a victim of the storm, not just in material ways - loss of a family member and damage to the town - but also in metaphoric terms.

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.