Hubris Quotes

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experie...

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from ...

In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our m...

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not ...

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of...

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail...

And on the pedestal these words appear:'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mi...

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying inte...

The author's Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we ev...

For many generations…they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin…they reckoned...

The irony of informing nearly naked people in a wilderness setting about the story of naked Adam and...

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carri...

And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; ...

Every medicine is vain.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themsel...

Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was sp...

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, ess...

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living...

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.