Arrogant Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to…

— Michel de Montaigne

“There is a wicked and pervading arrogance loose on the earth, like a rabid beast, an overdog. Does it run, does it slouch, does…

— Kelly Cherry

“If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic fits may…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”

— Herman Melville

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider…

— Charles Darwin

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also…

— William Ralph Inge

“Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are…

— T.F. Hodge

“Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself…

— Augustine of Hippo

“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and…

— Matthew Henry

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone,…

— George Bernard Shaw