#2,833

Something is modern if it is the product of an initial act of pride; something is modern if it seems to allow us to escape the human condition.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454

#2,688

The modern mentality is the child of human pride puffed up by commercial advertising.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#2,672

There is some collusion between skepticism and faith: both undermine human presumptuousness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 431

#2,588

The difference between “organic” and “mechanical,” in social facts, is a moral one: the “organic” is the result of innumerable humble acts; the “mechanical” is the result of a decisive act of pride.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 419

#2,546

Justified pride is accompanied by profound humility.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 409

#2,527

Each one of man’s new conquests is the new plague that punishes his pride.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 406

#2,505

To restore an old liturgical gesture in a new context can amount to heresy.
To receive communion standing today, for example, becomes a gesture of pride.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 403

#2,474

Aristocracies are proud, but insolence is a plutocratic phenomenon.
The plutocrat believes that everything can be sold; the aristocrat knows that loyalty cannot be bought.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 398

#2,429

Each gesture of pride stops up a spring.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 391

#2,339

Every cry of human pride ends as a cry of anguish.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 379

#2,259

The only evil which we can hate without fear of harming some good is that which is rooted in pride.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 367

#2,014

The scent of the sin of pride attracts man like blood attracts a wild beast.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 327

#1,860

I have only one theme: pride.
Every stain is a vestige of it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,846

So-called frustrated lives tend to be merely overweening, frustrated ambitions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 303

#1,822

Among the inventions of human pride, one will finally slip in which will destroy them all.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 299

#1,775

Modern man is less proud than presumptuous.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,612

What the democrat calls “Man” is no more than the ghostly projection of his pride.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 267

#1,380

He who teaches end up believing that he knows.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 235

#1,272

Until man rouses himself from his current orgy of pride, it is not worth the trouble attempting anything.
Only looks not thrown out of focus by pride attain that lucid vision of the world which confirms what we preach.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 220

#1,152

Against the lowliness of the tasks which life assigns him nobody protests as loudly as the man who is incapable of carrying out any others.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 203