It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.
Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.
You feel humiliated, my young man, because thinking you understood so much so well, you suddenly find that many very apparent things were unknown to you. Thinking you were one of the Lords of the Galaxy; you suddenly find that you stand near to destruction. Naturally, you will resent the ivory tower in which you lived; the seclusion in which you were educated; the theories on which you were reared.
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
