Sentences with phrase «of mere humans»

In spite of their failure to generate mass support, they want to change the world, and believe that their actions are warranted by a higher purpose than the trivial concerns of mere humans.

It's always a problem for environmentalists, who want to claim that their concern transcends the petty affairs of mere humans.

In this limited view of the future, the role that is cast for science is as an external force, above politics, and above the petty aspirations, interests and needs of mere humans, which tells us how we ought to live.

If God wasn't, as Nietzsche had it, dead, he was tragically far away, deaf to the sufferings of mere humans.

He believes in the glory of the expressive potential of materials, and the capacity of mere humans to manipulate them.

Vast stores of hidden wealth, gained by committing every crime in the book, and millions of fear - driven, deluded «slaves» who have been trained to give their very souls if need be... all under the thumbs of mere humans who use their power for every vice imaginable.

Such an awareness does not deny a telos to the history of life, but it does remove its fulfillment from the realm of mere human activity, whether economic, political, or otherwise.

Apparently this job is not the job of mere human reason, (although the Spirit of Truth works in the realm of human reason, showing, shining light onto and convincing and bringing about authentic conviction) it is Holy Spirits job to completely convince persons what is right and what is not right, to the point one is convicted in their inner being.

Building a city from scratch is a monumental task, beyond the reach of mere human strength.

Not exact matches

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

All of the technology in the world can't make us anything more than human, but understanding how our own brains work can give us an advantage over other mere mortals.

If you tell me, as a mere human being, to «make peace», then my best bet might be to become Secretary - General of the United Nations and learn to negotiate very well.

However, it is abundantly clear that the human race is as it is (this is no more than mere tautology), and so we can see that what may originally seem improbable is in fact the best explanation of a given circu.mstance.

You, dear Muslims, regard Jesus as a mere human being, or as one of many prophets, even lower than Muhammad.

If a Bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either; (i) taken out of context; (ii) symbolic, allegorical or otherwise means something other than it says; (iii) referring to another verse somewhere else that rectifies the error; (iv) a translation or copyist's error; (v) a mystery of God not discernible by we mere humans; or (vi) just plain magic.

«The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd.

It is something from which animals are exempt, except those who have the misfortune to be harnessed to human enterprise, and it is something unknown to a creature of mere needs.

3000 years of religious psychosis and pandering falsehood is a mere syllable of a fart when compared to majesty of the Universe (which is not in any way the embodiment of some pathetic humans» imagined deity).

All of the massive star systems, blackholes, billions of galaxies everything just for us mere humans?

Or else why would they react so negatively to what a tiny «minority» of mere mortal humans has to say.

Ultimately, however, Lawler finds mere political goals» particularly «veneration» of the American founders» inadequate, implying that only «the perspective of genuine believers» can effectively secure human dignity.

80: «The mere process of verbalization, being a human and hence fallible operation, introduces possibilities of error that involve more than memory.»

It is no mere matter of human psychology.

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»

This disbelief in the value of the human body was epitomised by Thomas Hobbes, who wrote: «Man is in the condition of mere nature, which is a condition of war, as private appetite is the measure of good and evil».

In Reformation theology justification is not a mere negation of human works but is itself utterly dependent on the classical dogmas of the Trinity and the incarnation - for it is per Christum.

Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.

We may, if you wish, allow that he was sometimes imperfectly reported, and it is certain that we have a very inadequate «coverage» of the most important life the world has ever seen, but the more one studies these brief and incomplete records, the more unthinkable it becomes that they should be mere human fabrications.

Given a really deep insight into the concept of collectivity, we are bound, I think, to understand the term without any attenuation of meaning, and certainly as no mere metaphor, when we apply it to the sum of all human beings.

The right to life, the foremost of human rights, is more than mere breath or tactile sense of touch.

The difference between the DNA of chimpanzees and humans is very small; a mere 1.6 per cent of the DNA is different.

Therefore, let us see what happens if we regard religion as the outcome of a long preparation, as a new dimension of the evolutionary process, and not as heaven - sent or as a mere projection of the human mind.

The Church also believed that these gods, for all their bluster and ongoing involvement in human affairs, could not answer the deepest human need: deliverance from our enslavement to sin and death, not mere solidarity and fellowship in the midst of that enslavement.

The implementation and monitoring of human rights enforcement going beyond mere legislations but insisting on the creation of national structures, institutions and organs of society which play a given role is stressed.

And scientifically, since what characterizes the development of the animal species from its beginning is the struggle for life, how can we expect, mere humans that we are, to escape from this essential biological condition without which there can be neither growth nor progress?

Why are works of human compassion nearly always left to be operated by a mere handful on a shoestring budget?

Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many people today have a limited idea of the Christian faith because they identify it with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in a relationship of love with them.

God literally became a man in order that the human categories of spirituality could be recognized as truly divine, and not the mere invention of a frightened race seeking some means of converting a miserable and ephemeral existence into a dignified and permanent purchase upon the existence of the universe.»

In both Lev 25:44 - 46 and antebellum chattel slavery, the principle immorality is the reduction of a human being to mere property and the corresponding deprivation of liberty.

Religious beliefs and practices are observed and discussed, but treated as states of mind and social customs, mere human constructions unsupported by any transcendent reality.

These roles and relations are not fundamentally natural phenomena integral to human identity and social welfare but are mere accidents of biology overlaid with social conventions that can be replaced by functionally equivalent roles without loss.

The question of the nature of such visions is more difficult, for it involves criteria by which visions are to be distinguished from invented ones or those due to mere subjective human conditions.

Our deepest longing is to see the day when the triumphant, sovereign lordship of you our loving God will no longer be a mere hope clung to desperately by faith, but a manifest reality in all human affairs.

By his mere great power on the minds of the now contestants, he could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest.

As this vocation is lived in the sober unity of scientific knowledge and human achievement it is prevented from becoming mere humanitarian twaddle.

Who are you, MERE HUMAN, to question the AUTHORITY of GOD?

His jeremiad is no mere denunciation of a corrupt political class but of the Spaniards» failure to live up to even the basic dictates of human reason.

While the words were recorded by humans, it should be quite obvious that these aren't the musings of mere mortals.

Using Berdyaev and Whitehead as support, he castigates a «mere spectator God» who surveys human suffering while remaining in a state of happiness.