Sentence examples for ancient thoughts from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

And it was in the September-Erlebnis of 2001 – the rush to war – and its prolonged aftermath that the ancient thought categories of empire were ardently rehabilitated, helped along by orientalists and elite thinkers such as Bernard Lewis, Samuel Huntington and Robert Kaplan.

It is not envisaged in ancient thought.

Correspondingly, (3) shows how the necessity of the present was understood in ancient thought.

In late ancient thought it is foremost Quintillian and Tertullian that uses the terms in a philosophically interesting way.

The character of Georgian thought in the 12th century is manifested in his style of philosophizing and in his manner of presenting arguments, in his knowledge of ancient philosophy and in his intellectual interest in maintaining ancient thought in its rightful place.

It is true that Kepler's work led the way to Newton's mechanics, which cannot be described in terms of ancient geometry and number theory but relies on the calculus and which relies on a theory of physical forces that is alien to ancient thought.

After his banishment he addressed himself to Italians generally, and devoted much of his long exile to transmitting the riches of ancient thought and learning, as these informed contemporary scholastic culture, to an increasingly sophisticated lay readership in their own vernacular.