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• It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how the world anyway is. It is bad faith or 'bullshit', respond 'absolutists', to suppose - as the rhetoric of postmodernism implies - that we could seriously live and act with the thought that truth and value are simply our own projections. An attractive feature of 'ineffabilism', as I see it, is that it evades these accusations.

  David E. Cooper

  Bullshit, World, Absolutism

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

  Moby

  Degrees, Failing

  "Moby Discusses His ISSUEs". Interview With Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners... If they're really good, they don't hassle me. They let me wander around and think. Young hardware clerks have a lot of hubris. They think they can help you find anything... Old hardware clerks have learned the hard way that nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Clerks, Use

  "Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller". Book by Neal Stephenson, May 1988.

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• Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together. This time, it's not stock market money but private equity, M&A, VCs and to some degree the reckless abandonment of logic by some advertisers who are perpetuating what is sure to end badly when the economy turns. Hubris is back my friends.

  Steve Rubel

  Drunk, Together, Degrees

  "Is the bottom about to fall out of Web 2.0?" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2007.

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• Cualquiera que haya criado a más de un hijo sabe muy bien que los niños salen como salen: de forma asombrosa, en su mayor parte, y normalmente muy distinta a sus hermanos, incluso a sus gemelos, criados bajo el mismo techo defectuoso. Poco de lo que hemos hecho o dicho, o dejado de hacer o de decir, parece haber dejado mucha huella. Es una arrogancia suponernos tan influyentes; es tan probable que un comentario casual en el patio de recreo les cambie la vida como cualquier campaña dedicada por nuestra parte. Vienen con gran parte de su propio software ya instalado, esperando, y ninguna de las teclas que pulsemos lo anulará.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Sibling, Kids

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• All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Successful, Two, Errors

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, autora de 'Comer, rezar, amar', sobre lo que hace falta para inspirarse". Entrevista con Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. 11 de agosto de 2013.

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• It's easy to ignore the mess around election do that over here in Germany. It's just a blip on the radar for the German culture. They're like, "Y'all are crazy over there. Next segment." I'm not saying they're not scared. They're just wondering when people are going to wake up and see the pattern they themselves lived through and could see coming from a much greater distance. They don't have the hubris of youth to luxuriate in. According to the Germans I've spoken with, Trump's rise looks very similar to what happened prior to Hitler rising to power.

  Measha Brueggergosman

  Crazy, Distance, People

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

  Michael S. Heiser

  Rebelión

  Fuente: www.patheos.com

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• Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so Lacanian and, like, mirrored, so as to be ridiculous. But there are very fixed sets of expectations that the world has about this work.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Expectations, Desire, World

  Fuente: www.aaa.si.edu

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• With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Competition, Ego, Way

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• Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.

  Kieron Gillen

  People, Creative, Ego

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• Los hombres y mujeres de Bush dicen que luchamos (la guerra de Irak) para golpear al terrorismo - excepto que Irak no tuvo ningún papel documentado en los atentados del 11 de septiembre. Se dice que luchamos por una objeción moral a la tiranía - excepto que no parecemos tan preocupados por los tiranos en naciones que carecen de enormes reservas de petróleo. Se dice todo menos la verdad: que nos precipitamos en una guerra innecesaria en una misión a medias. Y que las repercusiones de nuestra arrogancia nos perseguirán durante años.

  Leonard Pitts

  Guerra, Hombres, Años

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• Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

  Seth Godin

  Regret, Long, Choices

  "Sooner or later, the critics move on". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 24, 2015.

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• There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

  Penn Jillette

  Spring, Arrogance, Looks

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Creo que nuestra tarea consiste en desarrollar una imaginación moral y estética lo suficientemente profunda y amplia como para abarcar las contradicciones de nuestro tiempo y nuestra historia, las tremendas pérdidas y tragedias, así como la grandeza y la nobleza, una imaginación capaz de reconocer que donde hay luz hay sombra, que de la arrogancia y la caída puede surgir la regeneración moral, del sufrimiento y la muerte, la resurrección y el renacimiento.

  Richard Tarnas

  Believe, Fall, Loss

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• Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

  Garrett Hardin

  Potency, Dangerous, Economist

  Garrett Hardin (1995). “Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos”, p.73, Oxford University Press

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• Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Believe, Approval Rating, Wish

  "Divine Debt Trumps All" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 20, 2009.

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• Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

  Janet Morris

  Pride, Men, Arrogance

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• hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

  David Levithan

  Kind, Feels, Mines

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.107, Macmillan

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• Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

  Brad Pitt

  Ideas, Oklahoma, Feelings

  Interview with Jeff Giles, ew.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I feel like I'm the best actor on the planet and I also feel like I'm a fraud. I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Thinking, Insecurity, Be Confident

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

  Larry Wall

  Funny, Technology, Three

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• I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount of self-loathing but because I'm in show business it's considered self-deprecation. In normal life I would just be considered your average neurotic.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Self, Average

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Parece el colmo de la arrogancia anticuada pretender que el universo siguió adelante como lo hizo durante miles de millones de años para formar una morada confortable para nosotros. El azar y la contingencia histórica dan al mundo de la vida la mayor parte de su gloria y fascinación. Me siento aquí feliz de estar vivo y seguro de que alguna razón debe existir para "¿por qué yo?". O la tierra podría haber estado totalmente cubierta de agua, y un pulpo podría estar ahora contando a sus hijos por qué el Dios de ocho patas de todas las cosas había hecho un mundo tan perfecto para los cefalópodos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Niños, Pulpo, Ocho

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). "Un erizo en la tormenta: Ensayos sobre libros e ideas", p.206, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Los problemas son nuestras vidas. En los países "desarrollados", al menos, los grandes problemas se producen porque todos nosotros vivimos en parte mal o casi totalmente mal. No fue sólo la codicia de los accionistas y la arrogancia de los ejecutivos de las empresas lo que puso el destino de Prince William Sound en un solo barco; fue también nuestra exigencia de que la energía fuera barata y abundante.

  Wendell Berry

  País, Destino, Codicia

  Wendell Berry (2010). "¿Para qué sirve la gente?: Ensayos", p.198, Counterpoint Press

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