Translation of "Selbstüberhebung" in English

The best answer is both ancient and simple: hubris.

Only with revealed religion did autocratic and intolerant theologic egotism appear.

Self-exaltation is the sin of Satan.

Courage is valorous, but egotism is vainglorious and suicidal.

The egotism of the possessed one is unlimitedly naive.

My hope for 2014 is that Putin’s hubris will not lead Russia down a similar road.

A little less hubris would do the US, as well as the world, some good.

As soon as the footman, who had brought in the tea, had left the room, Karenin rose and went to the writing-table. Drawing toward himself the portfolio of current affairs, with a scarcely perceptible smile of self-satisfaction, he took a pencil from the stand and became absorbed in reading some intricate papers he had sent for, relating to the impending complication.

Churchill, in other words, became a symbol of presidential hubris in the US, even as the “special relationship” can be viewed as a symbol of British decline.

Let us hope that Americans learn their lesson about the dangers and follies of imperial hubris sooner.

The damage Bush’s self-confidence and self-delusion has inflicted was magnified by his gross overestimation of America’s power.

Americans’ pragmatism, opportunism, fair-mindedness, inventiveness, adaptability, optimism, and, above all, their inherent competitiveness offset their tendencies toward violence, impatience, self-righteousness, and unpredictability, their fondness for novelty and celebrity for their own sake, and their self-assertion en masse – getting there, as they like to say, “fastest with the mostest.”

Their self-exaltation has blinded them to the powerful truth of God (John 8:42-44).

Where my favour flows towards you in such fullness that you are instructed by my spirit, there also a certain right is given, to draw the attention of fellowman to his mistakes, without being able to be accused of self-arrogance.

There always exists the danger that the purely physical scientist may become afflicted with mathematical pride and statistical egotism, not to mention spiritual blindness.

It is the "objectifying" of God by thinking that creates the appearance as if man, different from all other existing things, could even live against "God"-what a self-elevation of the capability of reason!

In Nakanune for July (No. 7) 1899, an article entitled "Concerning the Manifesto of the Self-Emancipation of the Workers Group", Serebryakov argued that it was "indecent" to talk about such things as "self-deception, leadership, and the so-called Areopagus in a serious revolutionary movement" and, inter alia, wrote:

Much as it is to be regretted, national egotism has been essential to social survival.

The true "spirit" required by militarism, in respect first of all of its function against the external enemy, is chauvinistic pig-headedness, narrow-mindedness and arrogance; second, in respect of its function against the internal enemy, it is a lack of understanding and even hatred of all progress, of every undertaking and endeavour which might in any way threaten the power of the class dominant at the time.

The lack of biblical knowledge and grounding, of holy seriousness and vigilance, a superficial view of sin and grace, of conversion and rebirth, an arbitrary exegesis of the Bible, the desire for new, exciting phenomena, the inclination to exaggerate, but above all also arrogance - all this paved the way for this movement.

Agony and lamentation await all who willfully reject or blaspheme God through their self-exaltation!

It was on her efficiency abroad, not upon her self-sufficiency at home, that Athens was led by nature to depend.

I thank you for all the good you have done and have obtained for everyone, for the lights and good inspirations you have given us, and for all the times you have forgiven all our sins of thought, arrogance, pride and self-esteem.