It has less importance than any thing else in the history of Jesus, and yet nothing has more occupied the thoughts of the thinkers of the present generation.
The course of political affairs is in the long run greatly modified, if not completely guided, by the thinkers of a nation.
What are our works of art by the side of those of Athens; our thinkers by the side of those of Alexandria or India; our poets by the side of a Valmiki, Kalidasa, Homer, Pindar?
Neither thinkers nor governments effect all that they intend, but in compensation they often produce important results which they did not in the least foresee.
One of the most rising thinkers of the new generation in France, M.
The profound and original thinkers who are commonly known under this description, founded their general theory of government on one comprehensive premise, namely, that men's actions are always determined by their interests.
It will be proper to take our exemplification of the geometrical theory from those thinkers who have avoided this additional error, and who entertain, so far, a juster idea of the nature of political inquiry.
The point which most thinkers reach at last was to him the starting-point, whence his brain was to set out one day in search of new worlds of knowledge.
Indeed, the rules of punishment carried out in schools deserve the attention of the Office of Public Instruction when any thinkers are to be found there who do not think exclusively of themselves.
Compelled to choose between these two aspects of the question, in order to govern the nations, many generations of great thinkers have chosen the second.
Thinkers of both schools (he quotes Caird and Venn) admit that the process of judgment involves a change in objects, at least as they are for us.
There doubtless have been thinkers who held that truth is revealed to the reason of man in its naked purity, in the shape of apodictic intellectual principles.
Dewey observes that many of the difficulties in current controversy can be traced to presuppositions tacitly held by thinkers as to what experience means.
The present generation has not as yet quite got over the bad habit of making fun of these medieval thinkers for having accepted the idea of the transmutation of metals and searched so assiduously for the philosopher's stone.
As a matter of fact, Albert's declaration, far from being an innovation, was only in pursuance of the truly philosophic method which had characterized the writings of the great Christian thinkers from the earlier time.
This is very true if the ideas of the ignorant masses of the people and the second-rate authors and thinkers be taken as the standard of medieval thought.
With the touch of the Greek spirit that had come again into the world, it only carried the preceding work of great original thinkers to a high order of perfection.
Probably no greater group of original thinkers has ever existed than were alive in England during the preceding twenty-five years.
The kind of design in nature which first arrested early thinkers was its usefulness to man.
The last few years have witnessed the gradual acceptance by Christian thinkers of the great scientific generalization of our age, which is briefly, if somewhat vaguely, described as the Theory of Evolution.
The character of Jesus Christ has been a subject of study to thinkers of every period in Christian history, and of infinitely varied qualifications for the task.
The third is immutable [and, therefore, inaccessible to sense], and this some thinkers hold to be transcendent.
These are correct results arrived at by those thinkers who have devoted their attention to this branch of education,--results based upon actual experience.
Such freedom, based on insight, was to the thinkers of Greece the realization of manhood, or rather, of the divine in man.
Roger Bacon, one of the profoundest thinkers the world has produced, was terribly persecuted for his studies in natural philosophy, yet he persevered and won success.
Cessation of brain activity does not necessarily constitute brain rest, as most great thinkers know.
The thinkers and writers of "Mormonism" have more or less directly taught the same doctrine.
Sidenote: The thinkers and writers of Mormonism have taught the foregoing doctrine of life.
However, he had no known opportunity of studying the principles of astronomy, or of becoming familiar with the astronomical questions that were agitating the thinkers of his day.
Such reflections have led the thinkers to the belief that all space is filled with a subtle medium, now called the ether, through which energy passes in the form of waves.
Sidenote: Nearly all thinkers believe in God or an equivalent.
Then shall the thinkers of the future speak of him as Joseph, the clearsighted.
Usually, the thinkers have agreed that the indications point to such a central force, which by many has been identified with gravitation.
Thinkers in developing countries were not slow to point out that such initiatives served primarily the needs of the Western world.
John Stuart Mill was contributing essays to the magazines that made the thinkers think.
Thinkers prepare the way for thinkers, and every John the Baptist uttering his cry in the wilderness is heard.
All that the foremost of our contemporary thinkers have written and said was suggested and touched upon by William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, with like conclusions.
She had met the wits and thinkers of London and had learned to take care of herself.
This was over a hundred years ago, and thinkerswere as scarce then as now, for even so-called educated folk, for the most part, only think that they think.
My obligations to scholars, thinkers and great spiritual souls are far too numerous and great for any exhaustive recognition.
To be Latter-day Saints men and women must be thinkers and workers; they must be men and women who weigh matters in their minds; men and women who consider carefully their course of life and the principles that they have espoused.
It had no competitors, because outside of the Church there were neitherthinkers nor educated persons.
An overweening self-confidence and slight regard for the labours of other thinkersusually characterizes self-taught genius.
Through his kinswoman he was early introduced to the circle of earnest thinkers and moralists among whom the higher life was kept up at Rome amid the corruption of the Neronian age.
Nissim ben Moses of Marseilles, the first great Maimonist, who flourished about the end of the thirteenth century, and was considered as one of the most enlightened thinkers of his age.
What a blank would there have been in Jewish thought but for Maimonides' great work, on which the noblest thinkers of Israel fed for centuries!
Several Zaddikim were learned men and thinkers of no ordinary kind.
Such shortcomings, and such imperfections, are merely an evidence of the slow growth of society, and of the impossibility for even the greatest thinkers to outstrip their contemporaries beyond a certain point.
A few eminent thinkers may be able for a certain time to resist the pressure of their age.
It would have been well if they had not paid the forfeit incurred by many of those illustrious thinkers who have vainly attempted to stem the torrent of human credulity.
The Arminians have had among them many men of great learning, particularly of patristic learning; but the most profound thinkers have been on the other side, as in the instances of Augustin, Pascal, and Jonathan Edwards.
For where but in England was a literature to be found that could satisfy those bold and inquisitive thinkers who arose in France after the death of Louis XIV.
These profound and comprehensive thinkers have all rejected the study of final causes, which, as they have clearly seen, is a theological invasion of scientific rights.
But for some thinkers this solution was revolting.
If they did not accept the conclusions of Greek thinkers as final, they were still less prepared to accept sleight-of-hand and hysteria as the ultimate authority in religious truth.
Here the notorious interest of early Greek thinkers in Egypt helped to establish the necessary, though rather remote, connexion.
How intuition is to be reconciled with philosophy has been the problem of Christian thinkers in every age, but it may be remarked that the varying term is philosophy.
Institutions needed regeneration in France, and so those thinkerscame into vogue and power who laid most stress on the efficacy of good institutions.
Few thinkers on his level display such breadth of literary reference.
This work is a companion volume to "Evolution," and presents the best thought of representative thinkers on social evolution.
It is the joint work of a number of the foremost thinkers in America to-day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thinkers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
