Sentence examples for thinker reason from inspiring English sources

Riley's inner life is thinly populated, and missing some big characters, such as the Skeptic, or the Bullshit Detector (children have sharp ones), the Creator, and even the Thinker (reason itself is a sort of passion or emotion).

Therefore, the Conservative thinker reasons (and the Libertarian takes this reasoning to an even greater degree), we should keep as much money as possible in my pockets and therefore out of the hands of government.

But, in the view of Enlightenment thinkers, reason did not need to be responsive to supernatural revelation, as contained in the Old and New Testaments.

For many Enlightenment thinkers, reason did not oppose religion.

Will the great thinker find reason to sport a pair of plastic Groucho glasses at some point?

A brilliant account of one of the most brilliant periods in philosophy, Heretics! is the story of how a group of brave thinkers used reason and evidence to triumph over the authority of religion, royalty, and antiquity.

We are children of the French Enlightenment, whose thinkers separated reason and emotion.

This was a social vision of literature, stretching beyond the exclusionary "mainstream" of publications like the New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly, and drawing [End Page 71] together diverse webs of thinkers for reasons inflected by more than personal standing or profit.

It's loss deprived Western thinkers of a reason to bite the hand that fed them.

Her essay was squarely aligned with other Enlightenment thinkers' appeals to reason, to the rights of man, and to the notion of equality of dignity among all people.

Pietists emphasized Christian devotion and diligence as paths to the good life; Enlightenment thinkers focused on reason and clear thinking as the sensible way to happiness.