Sentence examples for ancient thought from inspiring English sources

This exhibit is simply intended to point out some currents within ancient thought that foreshadowed later developments in evolutionary biology.

Monks in monasteries faithfully copied out classics of ancient thought and early Christianity and preserved them for posterity.

The ancient thought experiment, the ship of Theseus, asks how we are to understand permanence in objects.

He published a monumental philological study, "The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies," in 2001, and a second one, "Sappho," in 2008.

The theory of mixed government originated with ancient thought and the classification of political systems on the basis of whether one, a few, or many ruled.

The program is committed to its traditional core fields of historical, art historical, archaeological, and literary research while also extending its range into the study of ancient thought broadly conceived: ancient philosophy, historiography, medicine, religion, and the later reception of ancient ideas.

In her memoir, Twyla Tharp, who collaborated with Byrne in 1981 and in the process became romantically involved with him, wrote that he seemed to want "to find the residue of ancient thoughts in the most up-to-date aspects of society".

At parties, Vanhoenacker writes, he is often asked questions that "suggest that even now, when many of us so regularly leave one place on the earth and cross the high blue to another, we are not nearly as accustomed to flying as we think": questions that reassure him that "a deeper part of our imagination lingers" in the realm of ancient thoughts about flight.

It compares ancient Greek thought and ancient Chinese thought.

Though internally diverse, this tradition shared an aversion to the idea, widely held in ancient Greek thought, that societies could be characterized according to the character of their political constitution and institutions.

Sehgal's tribute to Socrates reveals the radicalism of ancient Greek thought.