113 Quotes About Hubris

What magic was this, brewed from equal parts of age-old memories and total oblivion. One could have believed that the last war these people had fought had left only happy memories, had carried in its wake nothing but joy and prosperity. Women and girls were smiling as if their sons and lovers were invulnerable.

And this is the great challenge of our time, the evolutionary imperative for the masculine to see through and overcome its hubris and one-sidedness, to own its own unconscious shadow, to choose to enter into a fundamentally new relationship of mutuality with the feminine in all its forms.

I'd sooner worship a lemon than any of the gods men have created.

That's very noble of you, cautionary tales of hubris notwithstanding.''Hah! Please. Find me a more universally REWARDED quality than hubris. Go on, I'll wait. The word is just ancient Greek for "uppity," as far as I'm concerned. Hubris isn't something that destroys you, it's something you are PUNISHED for. By the GODS. Well, I've never met a god, just powerful human beings with a lot to gain by keeping people scared. So fuck hubris! Punch the sun, baby!

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

In the vastness of the United States of America, the island nation Britain found the perfect vessel into which to pour its continental-sized hubris and ambition.

You saw the stars out in front of youToo tempting not to touch

¡Ahhh, qué gusto dejarse llevar por la locura de aquel modo! Las miserables gotas de agua que éramos antes se habían convertido en un torrente tumultuoso al que nada se le resistía, ni lo antiguo, ni lo poderoso, ni lo sagrado.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.