113 Quotes About Hubris

We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings are regarded as sacrosanct as they stand, where God is required to command what we already love, and to promise what we already desire.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

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

Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?Have you declared yourself enlightened?Damn your weak philosophies; a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.

Thou has't all the symptoms of hubris but, alas, remaineth unw'rthy of the condition.

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.