Quotes About Hubris

And concepts rejected when they came from someone else often looked better when rethought as one's own. Even the Emperor, it seemed, was not immune to that particular hubris.

I have to say there is part of me that envies the moral clarity of the vegetarian," writes University of California journalism professor Michael Pollan, in a passage from his 2007 book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. "Yet part of me pities him, too. Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris."70 The trouble with dogmatic vegetarianism

This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs, generally leads to trouble. The unwarranted sense of security sooner or later results in a rude awakening. When people start believing that progress is inevitable and life easy, they may quickly lose courage and determination in the face of the first signs of adversity.

This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs, generally leads to trouble.

whenever a culture has had a run of good luck and for a while seems indeed to have found a way of controlling the forces of nature. At that point it is logical for it to begin believing that it is a chosen people who need no longer fear any major setback. The

And self-conceit leads straight to self-deceit.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

There is nothing beneficial in pride, simply because too much of it will lead to arrogance and tyranny.

people who think they know everything end up becoming despots.

Alas, in our age, some arrogantly believe that if they cannot comprehend something, then God cannot comprehend it, either.

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

invincibility that only drunks and fools know.

Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god.

The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.

The cause of the modern disease is the conviction that man can cure himself.

Humanity is the only totally false god.

Greatest fools are oft most satisfied.

This was the hubris of mankind, to rally in the face of overwhelming odds, to thread the needle and climb the mountain and survive the storm. He

This was the hubris of mankind, to rally in the face of overwhelming odds, to thread the needle and climb the mountain and survive the storm.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.