Hubris Quote by Richard Tarnas Download Open image “The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.” — Richard Tarnas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hubris Identity Modern Self Shadow
“A fugitive on the run with a plan for the future is the definition of hubris.” — Tyler Patrick Wood Copy Share Image
“First, the visionary intellectuals and planners behind them were guilty of hubris, of forgetting that they were mortals and acting as if they were… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“The self is configured in ways that both reflect and influence the very foundations of social life and everyday living. Without the guidance set… — Philip Cushman Copy Share Image
“The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the extraordinarily lives… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
“Although most people never overcome the habit of berating the world for their difficulties, those who are too weak to make a stand against… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“Ordinary life rewards a practical, unintrospective outlook. There's too little time and too much fear for anything else. We let ourselves be guided by… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“The hubris that attends all political programs of central planning is fueled by an ignorance of the forces of chaos.” — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“This is not the time to be looking for ways to dismiss a nascent movement against the power of capital, but to do the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“The self is who we truly are, but the persona or mask (the word comes from the Latin for an actor’s mask) is the… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned” — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“Reality reveals itself in man's idleness, and so it is often his greatest threat.” — VD Copy Share Image
“The world is in some essential sense a construct. Human knowledge is radically interpretive. There are no perspective-independent facts. Every act of perception and… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend a very… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
I believe that the astonishingly consistent and nuanced reality of the planetary correlations with the archetypal dynamics of human life is one of the… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive projection of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“The very nature of the objective universe turns any spiritual faith and ideals into courageous acts of subjectivity , constantly vulnerable to intellectual negation.” — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being… — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails… — Plato Copy Share Image
It now appears that the world is filled with people who believe that everyone should be interested in everything they have to say about… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
