Sentence examples for classical thought from inspiring English sources

He absorbed classical thought, but was not enslaved to it.

His best-known work, Hypomnematismoi kai semeioseis gnomikai ("Personal Comments and Annotations"), commonly designated the "Philosophical and Historical Miscellany," is an encyclopaedic collection of tracts and essays on classical thought, history, and literature, comprising more than 80 Greek authors.

The theory holds that though markets cannot be predicted, risk can still be calculated using normal distribution, or "the bell curve," another geometrically elegant solution influenced by classical thought.

Articulated in the classical thought of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods of the Zhou dynasty (1046 256 bce), dao exerted considerable influence over subsequent intellectual developments in China.

The Illustrated Aristotle: At The Wall Street Journal, H. George Fletcher discusses an exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York that will interest philosophy bibliophiles: a lavish marriage of classical thought (Aristotle's) and medieval bookmaking (principally Girolamo da Cremona's).

But however much we love to cite the Greeks as a pristine standard, as models for contemporary culture, we do so at no little risk; we may like to think of ourselves as Greek, but the fact is that much of classical thought and culture is extremely foreign to us.

("An unexpected combination of romp and classical: thought-provoking, sassy and comforting," Ali Smith. "These intertwined, silken stories deftly expose the heart-sickness behind so many of the burnished surfaces of contemporary life," John Banville).

("An unexpected combination of romp and classical: thought-provoking, sassy and comforting," Ali Smith. "These intertwined, silken stories deftly expose the heart-sickness behind so many of the burnished surfaces of contemporary life," John Banville). And she's already been a runner-up in the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize for best short story for one of this new collection.

This latter period, the golden age of Islamic scholarship, was largely a period of translation and interpretation of Classical thoughts and their adaptation to Islamic theology and philosophy.

This 1993 Met purchase is a reminder that the Dutch Golden Age was part of the larger European Baroque, less a style than a state of aesthetic consciousness that embraced neo-classical thought, Counter-Reformation spirituality and colonialist exoticism.

501 - 600 John Philoponus, also called John the Grammarian, Greek Joannes Philoponus or Joannes Grammaticus (flourished 6th century) Christian philosopher, theologian, and literary scholar whose writings expressed an independent Christian synthesis of classical Hellenistic thought, which in translation contributed to Syriac and Arabic cultures and to medieval Western thought.