Of the moderns, so representative a thinker as Lotze suggested that Reality may run up, not into one solitary peak, but into a mountain chain.
More especially would the old-world thinker be struck by the phenomena of the circulation of water.
Euripides is the actor with leaping heart, with hair standing on end; as Socratic thinker he designs the plan, as passionate actor he executes it.
People gave him credit for being a thinker much more than a painter.
For no matter how poor or humble a man may be, the great thinker of this and other days may come in and sit down with him, and be his companion for the time, though his dwelling be the meanest hut.
But, as in many other instances exposed by Engels, the great thinker has simply borrowed here from someone else on the sly.
As a thinkershe showed considerable honesty and independence of mind.
We live, as a modern thinker puts it, because we stand like the rest of cognisable nature under the universal law of causality; this idea is founded not on a metaphysical but a biological basis.
What thinker and dramatist is known like Maeterlinck, except it be the magical Gerhart Hauptmann?
At the time of his death the French thinker was composing a work entitled La Physique des M[oe]urs, in which he contemplated a demonstration of his law of intellectual constancy.
That "now" had a sinister significance, for the brilliant thinker was quite helpless and incapable of reading through the page of a book, though he was never the lunatic pictured by some of his opponents.
The Danish critic, Georg Brandes, has described Beyle's relation to Balzac as "that of the reflective to the observant mind; of the thinker in art to the seer.
Possibly these things may account for the neglect of a writer and thinker of such delicacy and originality as Poictevin, but he was always caviare even to the consumers of literary caviar.
If, as Metchnikoff asserts, a man is no older than his arteries, then a thinker is only as old as his curiosity.
He is not orthodox as thinker or artist; but it is a truism that the wicked of a century ago may be the saints of to-morrow.
But the German thinker saw in the Frenchman of genius only a Christian who hugged his chains, one who for his faith suffered "a continuous suicide of reason.
This study had been commenced in his own time by De Brosses, the inventor of the term fetishism, and pronounced by competent modern authorities to have been a powerful and original thinker upon the facts of the infancy of civilisation.
His position was one which no modern free-thinker would dream of making a central point of attack, and which hardly any modern apologist would take the pains to reply to.
To this every thinker is liable who sets out from the philosophy of Kant, provided he be strong and sincere in his sorrows and his desires, and not a mere tinkling thought-box or calculating machine.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet," says Emerson.
To rise as high as any thinker yet into the pure icy air of the mountain, where there are no mists and veils, and the inner constitution of things is shown in a stark and piercing clarity!
An American may tell them what a centre of mighty forces a great thinker can prove on this earth.
But," one will say, "he is not a thinker but mainly a depository of thought, a man of great learning in all previous philosophies.
While the true thinker desires nothing more than leisure, the professor fears it, not knowing how it is to be used.
If the great thinkerdespise mankind, it is for their laziness; they seem mere indifferent bits of pottery, not worth any commerce or improvement.
Epictetus—to my mind the greatest ethical thinker of antiquity—has a valuable and carefully reasoned chapter on the subject in his Dissertations.
In fact he was too clear and profound a thinker to be first-rate in controversy--a function which requires either unusual dishonesty or one-sidedness in an unusual degree.
Yet I must somehow have laid hold of the pith of the matter, for, many years afterwards, when Dean Mansel's Bampton Lectures were published, it seemed to me I already knew all that this eminently agnostic thinker had to tell me.
His way of thought became their way of thought:--such, under new conditions, is the history of every great thinker still.
Wheresoever a thinker appeared, there in the thing he thought-of was a contribution, accession, a change or revolution made.
We may call this Odin, the origin of Norse Mythology: Odin, or whatever name the First Norse Thinker bore while he was a man among men.
The first Pagan Thinker among rude men, the first man that began to think, was precisely this child-man of Plato's.
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world!
Nature was to this man, what to the Thinker and Prophet it forever is, preternatural.
But curiously, through all this, comes ever and anon some glance as of the realthinker and seer.
On the one hand, if intelligence be both thinker and thought, it implies duality, and is not simple or unitary.
The careful thinker will see that in these seemingly diverging branches common elements and common principles are coming more and more to light.
But no cautious thinker can treat such a subject with the ease of ordinary demonstration.
That remark, uttered among those old men, would have made an artist and thinker shudder as they all nodded their heads.
He was far more of a constructive political thinkerthan Gautama or Lao Tse.
Except Wycliffe, there is no considerable thinker of these centuries, so far as I know, who is not Nominalist.
In fine, "science, far from destroying the foundations of ethics, as it is so often accused of doing, gives to evolutionist ethics a philosophical certitude where the transcendental thinker had only a vague intuition to rely upon.
But throughout her conversation she struck me for a professed free-thinker to be singularly dogmatic and sometimes almost fanatical.
She thought Mrs Housman would have been just the same if she had been brought up as a free-thinker or a Presbyterian.
The lonely thinker and the happy lover stood thus for an instant, envying and admiring each other.
The world had had enough of merely dithyrambic prophets, it was for the Modern Prophet to heat with his fire the cannon-balls of logic and science; he must be a thinker among prophets and a prophet among thinkers.
IX And so the seasons and the years wore on, each walling in the lonely thinker with more solid ice, and making it only the more difficult ever to break through or to melt his prison walls.
The thinker had a last gleam of satisfaction in seeing so lucidly the springs of his failure as a human being.
But what a curious assumption for a Jewish thinker to accept, that unless we are immortal, our acts in this world are of no consequence!
We find this conclusively shown by some remarks in The Christian World before us, credited to Professor Tayler Lewis, the most learned and able thinker we are acquainted with among our Protestant contemporaries.
Beyle's relation to Balzac is that of the reflective to the observant mind, of the thinkerin art to the seer.
Of interest as regards Hugo's own development are the passages in which he expounds his private theory of poetry; although he is so much of the poet and so little of the thinker that his arguments are, as a rule, sadly inconclusive.
Each page of the novel reveals the conscious endeavour of the born thinker to express in artistic form some conception that would help to clear the outlook on which the answer to the problem depended.
What thinker will reduce the quality to intellectual symbols?
The Inexplicable must be the object for the thinker with his orderly sequences, his logical search for causes and results.
To this profoundly reverentthinker reason is not a faculty, much less a property of the human mind.
The deepest thinker is he who thinks his thoughts into deeds.
Men may be philosophers and poets because the First Poet and First Thinker is their Parent.
The thinker has a thousand tenets of faith where the believer gets along with few; but the former brings coherence into his tenets, and takes the coherence in turn for the scale to estimate their worth by.
To the thinker his thinking is a "sublime labor, a sacred activity," and it rests on a firm faith, the faith in truth.
The thinker is distinguished from the believer only by believing much more than the latter, who on his part thinks of much less as signified by his faith (creed).
A noteworthy example of this is Alexander Von Humboldt the distinguished German scientist, who was generally looked upon as perhaps the greatest thinker in European science during the first quarter of the Nineteenth Century.
Of course John Ruskin had a thorough-going admiration for so great a spiritual thinker as Dante and expressed it in no {309} uncertain terms.
The greater the revolution a genuinely progressive thinkerand worker tried to accomplish in human progress, the more sure was he to obtain not only a ready audience, but an enthusiastic and encouraging following.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thinker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
