10 Metaphors for thinker

Hitherto it has been presented only as an order of truth appealing to the intellect: but the intellect is only one function of the soul, and thinkers are the merest fraction of mankind.

A second predominantly contemplative thinker was Karl Gustav Carus (1789-1869; at his death in Dresden physician to the king; Lectures on Psychology, 1831; Psyche, 1846; Physis, 1851), greatly distinguished for his services to comparative anatomy.

Ruling religious thinkers should also, by and by, become leaders of national thought and life.

The great thinkers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were divines, the men whom the Reformation produced.

If a severe thinker be also a man of wit, like Bacon, Hobbes, Pascal, or Galileo, the wit will flash its sudden illuminations on the argument; but if he be not a man of wit, and condescends to jest under the impression that by jesting he is giving an airy grace to his argument, we resent it as an impertinence.

At the same time, he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker.

What original and profound thinkers were Pascal, Descartes, Helvetius, Malebranche, Nicole, and Quesnel!

Nevertheless the first thinker who treated love as a compound feeling and consciously attempted a philosophical analysis of it was Herbert Spencer.

For several years past, if a man had but an ill-favoured nose, the deep-thinkers of the age would some way or other contrive to impute the cause to the prejudice of his education.

The former thinkers are the genuine, they think for themselves in both senses of the word; they are the true philosophers; they alone are in earnest.

10 Metaphors for  thinker