At a discussion earlier this week of policy wonks, academics and party thinkers there was a chorus of self criticism.
Among Jewish liberal thinkers, there was a different sort of hope, that of acceptance as equal citizens.
Arguably for premodern thinkers there was no question of "isolating" belief in God from any "wider, generally prevailing, evidential practice," and thus no existential "choice" to be made about which standards to employ.
At least on strongest case grounds, seek out the most sophisticated religious thinkers there are.
There are, too, the lives of intellectuals and artists and thinkers; there are long established libraries and universities, orchestras, theatres and art galleries.
There are introverts and extroverts, convergent thinkers and divergent thinkers, there are some real perfectionists and then there are some people who can play it loose and experiment all the time.
Ibn Rushd was dead, but he and his adversary continued their dispute beyond the grave, for to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy.
It should be clear from the discussion above that, while the early evidence shows that Pythagoras was indeed one of the most famous early Greek thinkers, there is no indication in that evidence that his fame was primarily based on mathematics or cosmology.
Among the more optimistic water thinkers, there's hope that the severity of the current epic might fundamentally alter how Californians use and think about water.
Although there was the peerage, and the prominent position as leading Labour thinker, there was also the memory of early academic failure, the knowledge that he had never managed to make money and had always relied on Rebuck, the sense that she was too good for him, and worst of all the crippling doubt that she had never truly loved him.
She wondered whether Abbado still thought of her as an immature thinker: "There's a little bit of a parent-child relationship, where the parent always sees the child, no matter how old you get".
