Sentence examples for passages of thought from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, there are plenty of passages which are not just difficult but apparently unnecessarily obscure, sometimes muddled as passages of thought or explication.

One might try assimilating this line of thought to those passages where Augustine has in mind necessary a priori truths.

I see this piece as a passage of thought, a brain's musing, however frightening it may be.

Like Joyce, Lispector strove to capture the quicksilver passage of thought, to inhabit its formulation and digression without a narrative overseer.

Because Stewart has proved himself able to unravel election spin (and a desk-side chat with him has become practically a political rite of passage), the thought of next year's contest without Stewart on the scene only increases our national malaise toward the growing list of candidates.

This quote is from Mao Zedong's 1927 Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, and part of a longer passage of his thoughts on the need to overthrow the ruling class through violence.

Modifications that decrease the power of a body to maintain its individual ratio are paralleled by modifications decreasing the mind's power of thought, and such passages are sadness (IIIp11s, Affect Def. III).

Lerner is attempting to capture something that most conventional novels, with their cumbersome caravans of plot and scene and "conflict," fail to do: the drift of thought, the unmomentous passage of undramatic life.

In this passage, ideas are cast as modes of thought that represent (or present or exhibit — Descartes uses such terms interchangeably) "objects" to the mind.

While the relevant passages are difficult to interpret, it is clear enough which line of thought comes to influence later skeptics.

The Wax Tablet passage offers us a more explicit account of the nature of thought, and its relationship with perception.