Sentence examples for of the highest type from inspiring English sources

Sir George Aston, writing in his 1930 book Secret Service, called on his readers to "pay a tribute to a real German spy of the highest type ... Karl Lody", while John Bulloch commented in his 1963 history of MI5 that Lody's bearing made him "something of a hero even in the country against which he was working".

Of these, the highest type of knowledge is that found in the conclusion of a demonstration (NLP I.5, 31 32).

And half-breeds are not conducive to the higher type of society..

Alfred Stieglitz denigrated his work, though with an odd note of respect, as "nothing more than the highest type of Illustration".

Dr. Bernard calls him "Paramahamsa," it means the highest type of man in the sense of physical, mental, and moral balance, poise, and equilibrium.

Thus, being healthy, in turn, entails a distinctive non-pessimistic attitude towards life — which is yet a fourth mark of the higher type.

This is perhaps the most unusual feature of Nietzsche's discussion of the higher type, for it suggests that, at bottom, being a higher type is a matter of "attitude" or "bearing".

In general, it seems that conceding the objectivity of "high" and "low" permits one to make objective non-prudential value judgments like: the good of the higher type is superior to the good of the lower type.

Indeed, the ability to set his own standard of valuation is one of the most distinctive achievements of the higher type, as we saw already in the discussion of solitude.

Tarskian semantical notions play the role of the higher types hinted at by Gödel.

Inarticulate, gauche, she is not considered to have the sensibility to feel the higher types of terror.