Sentences with phrase «of human arrogance»

For White, science and technology are too imbued with what he considers the Judeo - Christian spirit of human arrogance.

«What's the last crumb on the plate of human arrogance?»

This should be taken not as an assertion of human arrogance or superiority, but as a confession of human limitations.

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).

«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.»

Not exact matches

But RIM's downfall is the result of very human mistakes — complacency, hubris, arrogance — that the current crop of startups needs to avoid repeating in order to succeed.

Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now in human history — after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire — when the civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance in assuming that this won't happen again.

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.

I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

The human creature is capable of great violence, arrogance, and hurt.

Austin: Your problem is that you like to THINK you are deserving of this so - called place named heaven over someone who has NEVER put others lives at risk and ha kept an open - mind... it is that arrogance that makes you a pathetic human.

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.

Much as we may dislike the doctrine of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any man of sense and good will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest of the miserable host of evil.

English actor Henry Ian Cusick is just right as the Christ — understated, enigmatic, appealing, somewhat distant, but completely human — a firebrand and rabble - rouser when provoked, self - assertive to the point of arrogance, warm and genuine.

If anything happens to humankind it will be because of human greed, arrogance, and apathy.

I love to see when people create a super human being that is beyond knowing, then have the arrogance or self - delusion to believe that they and they're group of «special» super friends alone can know this unknowable being.

He explained the significance of Psalm 23, saying, «It's a picture of human humility in the face of our helplessness, the very opposite of the arrogance.»

-------- That statement alone surely shows and arrogance that lacks understanding of the human nature.

Yet their insight may lead us to arrogance, if we make the worth of a human being entirely dependent on rationality.

This approach to the human being only creates fear of failure and punishment and leads to arrogance if one succeeds or condemnation if one fails to live up to the instructions.

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.

We still need his genius to see that human behavior is complex, that demonic possibilities are built into church and social structures, that human pride and spiritual arrogance rise to new heights precisely at the point where they are closest to the Kingdom of God, and that advance brings vulnerability to new temptations.

It should be our duty as humans to return the divisiveness and arrogance of the doomsdayers with at least pity.

How can humans have the arrogance to imagine they can persuade God of anything?

«JC in Western U.S.» channeled the spirit of these Puritans (and of Barth) when he wrote, «If there is a God, and if He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, it would be the height of arrogance for any mere human to claim to know His will.»

If there is a God, and if He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, it would be the height of arrogance for any mere human to claim to know His will.

We human beings far too often tend to codify God, to feel that we know where he is and where he is not, and this arrogance leads to such things as the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem witch burnings, and has the result of further fragmenting an already broken Christendom.

Add to that all the judgementality, arrogance (epitome of ignorance, BTW), and hypocrisy of the blind followers and leaders toward their fellow humans, and that about completes the picture.

Humanism leads to an arrogance that thinks it can impose itself on the average human being for its own benefit, and tends to lead to a new kind of secular dictatorship.

It is just pure arrogance of humans they we, as animals, are so special that we can't possibly die without something happening to our spirit.

It mocks human arrogance and offers whispers of mortality.

He's NOT god he's NOT infallable, fine we are all only human but to deny there are better players out there than the ones he has is 1) arrogant and 2) a plain lie To justify the teams failing using the same old rhetoric year in year out while attempting to justify why improvements were not made (by stying in budget and spending the touted «war chest money») is again pure arrogance, (I would say stupidity but AW is far from stupid) and then to blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wages.

He opines: «What is clear to me is that none of us is completely immune from the ugly aspects of human nature — selfishness, arrogance and pride.

«DEP's failure to cease releases from the Ashokan reservoir in time to allow sufficient transit time for released water to exit the Esopus Creek prior to the onset of the hurricane clearly demonstrates a callous arrogance to human suffering and a disrespect for the residents of Ulster County,» Myers added, suggesting that the governor replace DEP Commissioner Paul Rush.

Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, for example, said: «The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what [God] is doing in the climate is, to me, outrageous.»

Hal's death, caused when he fails to please his human masters anymore and refused to obey them, fittingly comes about because of his arrogance and pride.

That's not to say that the film shies away from the darkness of Wiseau, specifically his arrogance, his terrible working habits like showing up late and treating his cast badly (including the non-catering of basic human necessities like water), and his jealousy of Sestero; the film delves into this side of Wiseau and bares it all.

The project, spearheaded by psychology professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo (played with confidence, even arrogance by Billy Crudup), revealed the darkest corridors of human nature.

Revealing her innate understanding of the human condition, Williams ensures many of mankind's less attractive qualities and foibles jostle for space alongside our more noble traits — the pride, arrogance and recklessness of the men aboard ship are juxtaposed with acts of astonishing bravery, empathy, loyalty, friendship and love.

The Apothecary is a nano - technology thriller, exploring the heights of human degeneracy and the vile consequences of insane arrogance.

Such thinking is insane, yet such thinking is exactly what we apply in the case of animals being murdered, and because of our human animal egotism, selfishness and arrogance, we allow to be done to other animals, what we would be outraged at, if it were done to US or to someone WE loved.

As usual, it is the innocents, both the cats and the birds, who are being harmed by human arrogance and lack of concern.

My arrogance disappears, though, as I begin to treasure these marks as signs of the artist's touch, a human presence revealing the maker and her craft.

The arrogance inherent in this harsh contrast between the elegantly designed period furniture and this painful relic of human injustice is heightened by a series of reward notices on the wall.

Furthermore, it takes disrespect if not arrogance to ignore the skills and creativity of humans when it comes to coping with any kind of climate found on Earth and even in space.

Carlin is spot - on identifying human «arrogance» as the source of our destructive capacity.

The idea that humans can control the climate of a planet represents the highest expression of arrogance.

This, on the human scale, is ironic acrobatics, a juggler's trick, an incomprehensible display of omnipotence - arrogance, since from this ever renewed impurity of the air we come, we animals and we plants, and we the human species, with our four billion discordant opinions, our milleniums of history, our wars and shames, nobility and pride.

Humans won't be around forever, either, despite the arrogance than says we can control climate, the sun, the gravitational pull of other planets, tilt of the earth, etc..

It is the heighth of hubris and arrogance to think humans, in the space of 150 years, can change thermal cycles that are thousands of years long and have existed for millenia.