"active thought" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a specific type of thinking or decision-making process that involves taking action. For example, "Joe's active thought process led him to find a creative solution to the problem."
German officials were emphatic in rejecting speculation that any active thought was being given to altering Germany's refusal to participate directly in the war.
There's no element of mystery, nothing to capture the eye or pique the mind (whether in active thought or subconscious resonance) between packets of plot information, jolts of martial energy, and waves of sentiment.
The reason for that is because our minds are always on, and our minds our very habitual: We are constantly in motion in whatever our active thought and emotion are.
But while Mr. Struck spoke again today about the possibility that Germany could eventually send troops "in years to come," German officials were emphatic in rejecting speculation that any active thought was being given to altering the country's refusal to participate directly in the war.
"Cane River," for all its plain-spoken gracefulness, is a drama of the word made into image of bodies and landscapes, houses and cities, rivers and roads given a new dimension of existence by way of active thought, spoken in intricately confrontational dialogue, written in a notebook, read from a scholarly tome, even slipped on a scrap of paper into a waiting hand.
And cognitive tasks are mental processes that require active thought and consideration, such as planning and making decisions.
I wondered if these days, active thoughts of German identity were wrapped more in the incoming Syrian refugees; I was told several hundred had settled, at least temporarily, in Tübingen.
In the first few minutes after you wake up, you have the least amount of active thoughts.
In this way, thinking thinks itself as thought and is therewith active thinking, while thought, insofar as it thinks its thinking, is itself thinking, and its thinking now thought.
On the contrary, not only is it a priori possible for matter to be as "active" as thought and consciousness, and actually produce thought and consciousness, this is exactly what we discover from experience (T, 1.4.5.31/248 9).
By the time he graduated, he had also fallen under the spell of Brecht's "A Short Organum for the Theatre," which set out the playwright's aesthetic for epic theatre his attempt to engage the audience in a play of contradiction that encouraged active critical thought and departed from the passive emotional catharsis encouraged by the Aristotelian principles of drama.
