Sentence examples for thinkers into from inspiring English sources
Westermarck helped introduce the work of Adam Smith, Herbert Spencer, and other British thinkers into Finland.
After Fuller died, at 87, enthusiasm for his teachings cooled outside a small circle of acolytes, who sought, through seminars and books, to turn the freest of free thinkers into the high priest of a cult.
He weaves biographical facts about his chosen thinkers into their ideas and arguments, and searches for how "each life converges to some center" (Emily Dickinson's phrase, which stands as an epigraph to the book).
The Greek poet Archilochus said: 'The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' Inspired by this epigram, Isaiah Berlin divided writers and thinkers into hedgehogs and foxes.
Berlin's best-known essay was probably "The Hedgehog and the Fox," in which he breaks down writers and thinkers into two categories: those who know many things (foxes) and those who know one big thing (hedgehogs).
In the 19th century, with the political emancipation of the Jews in western Europe and the development of an optimistic evolutionism, messianism was transformed by many liberal thinkers into a version of the idea of progress, a goal that was often thought of as immediately attainable through enlightened social and political action.
Peter Davison, who selected and annotated the letters, was also the lead editor of Orwell's 20-volume "Complete Works" and has sought here to distill Orwell's essence, as man and thinker, into a more manageable size and format.
Through June 23 Nils Norman, a British-born artist in his 30's, has exactly what it takes to turn a savvy social thinker into a utopian artist: a deadpan faith in the persuasive power of the absurd.
She has performed a signal service by inviting Russia's thinkers back into the mainstream of political discourse.
The ideas for such a society can be found in the writings of important German thinkers well into the modern era.
WHEN a group of about 150 leftish thinkers crowded into a Little Rock auditorium recently to talk about federal judgeships, some wag joked that they were the only liberals left in the state.
