Sentence examples for mere animals from inspiring English sources

We are animals, mere animals like any other.

Strip that from us and we are mere animals.

And yet even as anxiety throws us back into our most primitive, fight-or-flight-driven reptilian selves, it is also what makes us more than mere animals.

Or are we mere animals, who must seize what is ours in order to survive and leave the weak ones behind?

Wolf-warriors, like Geri and Freki, were not mere animals but mythical beings: as Woden's followers they bodied forth his might, and so did wolf-warriors".

The album was developed from a collection of unrelated songs into a concept which, in the words of author Glenn Povey, "described the apparent social and moral decay of society, likening the human condition to that of mere animals".

Everything is temporary, except the rhythm of mere animal life.

Moreover, coherence of a certain sort allows for reflective knowledge as opposed to mere animal knowledge.

Beyond these three, his Great Exposition suggests ordinary ethical conduct is codified as well, in the main, in the ten ethical points (Sk. daśa-kuśala-patha) basic to any human life that rises above the mere animal.

This emphasis upon the ascetic consciousness and its associated detachment and tranquillity introduces some paradox into Schopenhauer's outlook, for he admits that the denial of our will-to-live entails a terrible struggle with instinctual energies, as we avoid the temptations of bodily pleasures and resist the mere animal force to endure and flourish.

Those who have studied the mere animal and vegetable Creation demonstrate that nothing can be more harmonious and beautiful!