Sentences with phrase «human arrogance»
"Human arrogance" refers to the belief or attitude of superiority, self-importance, or overestimating oneself as a human being. Full definition
This should be taken not as an assertion of human arrogance or superiority, but as a confession of human limitations.
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The belief that we control or drive the climate is just plain human arrogance.
It is human arrogance at its finest to believe an omnipotent being has some stock in the outcome of the number of times a ball is on either side of a field.
«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»
There's a distinction there that I feel is more clear if we avoid the whole «monkey» thing because human arrogance often tends to blind us.
It is still the calm, clear voice of Jesus in the magisterium that destroys the house of cards that human arrogance substitutes for the truth.
It mocks human arrogance and offers whispers of mortality.
There's a lot in the interactions between them about human arrogance and frailty and ultimately obsolescence, but mostly it's about David being the Vampire Willow to Walter's regular Willow during that one Buffy episode.
As usual, it is the innocents, both the cats and the birds, who are being harmed by human arrogance and lack of concern.
I think it was Barth who argued over and over that to be so confident of our plans, to be so sure of the effects of our causes is the ultimate in human arrogance.
Well, I really hesitate going here because I know it will be misconstrued and interpreted as egotistical, exclusivity, and the epitome of human arrogance, when in fact it is quite the opposite.
Historically Lutherans have thus tended to look askance at impatient attempts at vast social improvement, rightly seeing in them human arrogance.
Of course I fear our human arrogance (or ignorance) would have many of us think we are alone.
Atheism is a concoction of human arrogance.
As Niebuhr described it, the favorite strategy of avoiding the paradox is to claim the achievement of perfection (which in turn becomes a source of human arrogance).
He either got something wrong, which is human arrogance in the extreme, or He desired to give us a tainted gift.
Sorry but my human arrogance don't reach to that extent: p
«What's the last crumb on the plate of human arrogance?»
Beyond all of the science and lessons of human arrogance and survival, I found the story to be focused on loss... loss of home, loss of loved ones, loss of hope... and balanced by the remarkable human survival instinct.
«It is human arrogance to think that we can control climate, a process that transfers huge amounts of energy.
For White, science and technology are too imbued with what he considers the Judeo - Christian spirit of human arrogance.