Sentence examples for means of thought from inspiring English sources

My reading was now primarily a means of thought protection, for once war gets inside your mind it burns and pillages it.

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival — it was a means of thought resuscitation.

In the popular estimate today, I think that Scientology is considered less as a way to better mental health than as a means of thought control, punishment and vindictive pursuit, founded and managed in fear, not hope.

In a piece on summer reading that appears this week in the magazine, you write that as a young man in Bosnia, reading was & 8220primarily a means of thought protection.& 8221 How would you describe your relationship to reading, nearly two decades later?

They can project themselves by means of thought and desire toward the infinite.

Fragment 104, for example, compares a human life to a 'thinking reed.' "It is not in space that I should search for my dignity, but in the control of my thoughts … The universe comprehends me by space and engulfs me like a point; by means of thought, I comprehend it" (II, 574).

During the period from two to seven years, the child begins to manipulate the environment by means of symbolic thought and language; he becomes capable of solving new types of logical problems and begins to use mental operations that are flexible and fully reversible in thought.

The question of whether it will prove as infectious in the UK as it has on the continent is a tough one: the innate conservatism of mainstream British pop sits pretty uneasily with an artist who clearly thinks pop music can be both an unalloyed pleasure and a conduit for ideas, a means of provoking thought, a world in which you can reinvent yourself at the same time.

In the closing pages of Pragmatism, James raises this question by means of a thought experiment.

The sage proposes to resolve the king's puzzlement by means of a thought experiment comprised of two hypothetical situations.

"I do applaud the industry for trying to diversify," he added, but "in our industry 'diversity' ought to mean diversity of thought, diversity of background, different ages, different approaches, different sexual orientations.