Thinking Sentence Examples
They sat silently thinking for a time.
Nothing. I was just thinking about technology.
But you're not thinking right.
I love thinking about the future.
Later that night she woke and lay awake thinking about the way he had responded.
I've been thinking about rigging up something on the front to catch the webs.
Until now she had been thinking of no one but herself.
I can't imagine what he was thinking to hide a thing like that from you.
He was thinking about it now.
One day he was lying under a tree, thinking of his misfortunes.
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He spoke so clearly and with such conviction that Carmen wondered if he was thinking about Alex.
What was he thinking of?
She plodded on, willing herself to take each step, not thinking of the miles to go, but merely getting through one more painful step.
Thinking that turn and turn about is fair play, she seized the scissors and cut off one of my curls, and would have cut them all off but for my mother's timely interference.
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No. I was thinking about driving up to my parents place today.
I can't sleep thinking how we're wasting this incredible gift Howie has.
Here we were, caught up in the euphoria of our accomplishments, like a group of dissimilar workers sharing a winning power ball ticket, and thinking that success made us friends for ever.
I've been thinking on the way out here.
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I'm a wreck just thinking about it.
For a moment she was silent, thinking about Alexia.
I guess in a way I bonded with Donnie, thinking he did what I wanted to do.
No doubt he was thinking about Lori.
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What was he thinking, dragging her into this?
What were you thinking?
She sat up straight, thinking that position would be uncomfortable enough to keep her awake.
Carmen tried to shut them out by thinking about something else, but her mind kept going back to the same thing.
Thinking about Cade in that way could lead to no good.
What must he be thinking to hold on to her like that?
Why couldn't she stop thinking of him that way?
Stop thinking about him.
She stretched and tried to relax, but her mind kept returning to Cade - thinking of his warm touch on the palm of her hand.
It was all wishful thinking.
Stop thinking about it.
So I got to thinking about adoption.
When you offered me a job, were you thinking of me in any way other than a housekeeper?
I had trouble sleeping on the sofa because I kept thinking about my vision from earlier.
Thinking back, it was the pivotal point of all that followed.
Just thinking about her brings back the urge.
I was sowing wild oats at that age and not thinking clearly.
We almost passed up the case, thinking it was yet another teenager leaving home on her own.
I recall thinking ludicrously that I was staining Howie's beloved hardwood floors with my blood and puke.
The words were out of my mouth without thinking.
He hadn't paid much attention to any woman in many, many years, but couldn't help thinking her one of the most attractive he'd ever met.
I keep thinking, if I'd been in Miami instead of California, he wouldn't have, Bianca said, looking down.
I was thinking even someone who doesn't fear death, fears something else.
She couldn't help thinking the creature whose job it was to trick people into Hell wasn't above lying to the human mate he took.
You remember what you were thinking when you turned down my offer the first time?
Emerald was the color of Kris thinking, and Jade.s favorite hue.
Just thinking a guy's a jerk doesn't usually result in your killing him.
Dean wasn't thinking at near his usual high level.
He could tell she was thinking, too soon to meet the family.
I need you to explain what you were thinking while I fell in love with you.
Since he still wasn't thinking clearly, Jackson let Elisabeth field this one.
He sat, petting her, thinking how unreal this all seemed, but at the same time celebrated that they had overcome their most daunting hardship.
I'm thinking Daisy Duke outfit, and that song for my Christmas lap dance.
You thinking what I'm thinking?
She couldn't stop thinking of Brady.
Kris said nothing. Rhyn's assurances that Hannah was safe in Hell didn't sit well with him. Kris followed the half-demon without knowing where they might be headed, instead thinking of just how bad of a situation he'd left Kiki in.
Just thinking about it gets me all hot and tingly, she said, snuggling closer.
I am glad also to know, from the questions which you ask me, what you are thinking about.
I have been thinking about you.
Talking with Fritz was better than nothing, but this young man had an unusual way of thinking.
She was thinking as if she alone were responsible.
I know; I'm not jelouss, but you and Martha have this thing between you that goes so far back I get dizzy thinking about it.
I made her a deal that expires in four days, thinking I could reverse the bond.
He was thinking hard about it.
But thinking it was disturbing.
Deidre said without thinking.
Then, thinking better of her quick response, she began to pick at her fingernails.
Death. I'm thinking about death.
I wasn't sure, thought it might be wishful thinking on my part.
His philosophy, therefore, is that all known things are sensations and complexes of sensory elements, supplemented by an economy of thinking which cannot carry us beyond ideas to real things, or beyond relations of dependency to real causes.
He stopped thinking about the past and his gaze seemed to come to the present.
Instinct deemed it honor, but was that only wishful thinking?
I was just thinking I might have betrayed yours.
She hesitated a moment, wanting to tell him, but thinking she would be betraying Yancey if she did so.
Obviously, she hadn't been doing much thinking at all.
I guess I wasn't thinking about...
I was thinking more along the lines of you going in there and claiming her.
Wanna tell me what you're thinking, boss?
She couldn't stop thinking about him.
He kicked himself mentally for not thinking before he made any sort of pact with the Watcher, even one that seemed so straightforward, until he met his target and realized she was an innocent caught in the crossfire.
Which is probably what your vamp in there is thinking.
But it didn't, did it, he said slowly, thinking hard.
Jule couldn't shake his amazement that there was a vamp capable of thinking.
She couldn't help thinking her life had been wasted and hoped she still had a chance to make it up to the one person who mattered.
Thousands of years hadn't given him much insight into a woman's way of thinking, but this he knew without a doubt.
What are you thinking?
Just thinking of him made her body heat and her heart flip.
In your home videos, you're always thinking about the symbol.
She couldn't help thinking it was the first truly honest exchange they'd ever had – and the timing was the worst it could possibly be.
What kind of backward thinking is that?
A cold shiver went down his spine just thinking about it; a primal fear of dark and dank places.
I got thinking if his head was busted, then maybe somebody busted it for him and got away with it.
All this business with her got me thinking about them years— courts and jail and stuff like that.
The phone rang, causing all three to jump, thinking it might be Martha.
Silly David Dean for thinking more time might be needed to put all these pesky details to rest.
It got me thinking that if someone wanted the place, there must be a reason.
I wonder if Ginger is thinking about dumping Joseph?
To Dean's way of thinking, it spoke of fear—as well as guilt.
I thought I might camp there—spend a couple of days just thinking and dreaming.
Melissa's thinking about maybe suing him.
She spent a minute thinking over how she'd seen human-Deidre buy things.
How did she win him, if she had to guess what he was thinking?
She seemed to be thinking of how to respond.
I can't help thinking I hope he doesn't hurt her.
Though terrible news, Gabriel couldn't help thinking it was the best thing he'd heard all week.
There were moments when he didn't know what the human side of her was thinking.
It was far more important than the bet with the human, but Deidre couldn't help thinking about her deal and Darkyn's threat to reveal everything to Gabriel.
Darkyn would never let him through Hell, but Deidre … He felt like shit just thinking about it yet recognized the danger he was in.
Thinking of taking a dive in the lake and not surfacing again, except that it meant she'd lose her soul.
I don't see Deidre, Wynn said, thinking fast.
There was no point ruining her brunch thinking about that situation.
He was human, and there had been times that he had slipped, but it wasn't because he was thinking only of himself.
Obviously he had been listening and thinking about what she said.
I was thinking about you then, not Alex or Destiny.
There she was, thinking only about herself again.
He was probably thinking years ahead and wanted Carmen to handle it in event of his death.
She smiled, thinking how nice it was to have a family.
What was she thinking?
She had to keep thinking positively.
Long after she crawled into bed, she lay awake, thinking about Alex.
I wasn't even thinking about the children.
I've been thinking about that.
Maybe she should be ashamed for thinking such a thing.
She sat there for a long time, leaning against the porch post and thinking about the first time they had met.
I was thinking about that the other day.
I was thinking about the way you rode up and saved me from those dogs.
And he was listening - thinking.
And yet, how could she blame him for thinking that this was all she wanted?
Then again, if the room were clearly lit, she still wouldn't know what he was thinking.
Obviously she had no idea what he was thinking when it came to that type of thing.
Issues such as this were not resolved, but at least they were in the open instead of stewing about them and guessing what each other was thinking.
At least her answer wasn't no, and she had been thinking about it – researching.
I was thinking more along the lines that he can have no objection when I ask you to dinner, if he's out of the picture.
What're you thinking about?
I was thinking about working a couple of them in this week.
She was quiet for a moment, thinking.
His response made her think she wasn't far off in thinking he'd at least read her mind.
She felt horrible thinking it, but she was utterly relieved whoever it was on the beach, it wasn't Logan.
Gazing at the muscular man who freely admitted to killing for a living, Deidre couldn't help thinking she never wanted to see something he couldn't handle.
She was thinking, which was good.
How did you trick my sister Hannah into thinking I had a kid, when you and I know I don't?
I'm thinking death might be a bit more to my liking.
She'd like to think she was saving poor souls every day she spent with him donating her blood, but she couldn't help thinking she really wouldn't care what he did to get blood if she was gone.
She sensed he was reading her thoughts, and she wondered what he was thinking.
As she fell asleep, she couldn.t help thinking Rhyn was the only Immortal on the Council she.d trust to keep humans safe.
Recently, he.d begun thinking he.d need more if he were taking on demons, Immortals, and anything else the Dark One would throw at him.
Speechless, Katie couldn.t help thinking Gio was as shallow as her sister.
What was I thinking … it never would.ve worked anyway! she snapped.
Gazing at his dismembered mother, he couldn.t help thinking they were right.
The Council is working together for once, and Sasha tricked us into thinking he was returning to the Council, disappeared and washed up at the Caribbean Sanctuary.
Once more, he caught himself thinking of Andre and missing his brother.s—and best friend.s—guidance.
Even thinking of her made him feel as though his insides were burning and dying.
We're thinking about returning to his place to live.
Kiera asked, thinking hard.
She felt more guilty about thinking badly about Evelyn.
Someone else would have to do the thinking for him if he were to execute any kind of betrayal.
Kiera hefted it and relaxed, cheered to be doing something other than thinking or pacing.
Even after a month she couldn't go a night without thinking of her friend.
Of all the things she could be thinking about, she thought only of A'Ran.
She could almost see him thinking.
What have you been thinking about?
Wishful thinking, I guess.
I started thinking maybe I wasn't so dumb after all.
Then, as if thinking about it added, But I'll donate these things.
I gaze from my window to the hill as I watch the warm glow from his home and pray he perhaps is thinking of me as I am thinking of him.
Whoever you are, if you're thinking of selling this 'magazine bit' to all of Jerry's friends, you'll starve to death!
But I wonder what he's thinking.
I wasn't thinking at my highest level of logic.
You're not thinking of going up to Indiana are you?
My guess is someone did a bit of planning for Jerome Shipton's big fall, and Edith hasn't demonstrated any real talent for long-range thinking.
He answered by instinct, yet, in spite of not thinking of his answer, had he been given more time to consider, it would have remained the same.
He always tried to govern his thinking by logic.
I've got too much going for me right now to be thinking about those jerks.
I spent two weeks of hell thinking I was a big part of why Edith died!
Later, as they descended the stairs to the hall, Dean commented, "It's nice to think Annie and her friends are up there in heaven smiling down on us, probably thinking that we're nuts for always taking on everyone's problems."
I need to know what he's thinking.
Claudia put on a pout, thinking she had misread Jackson's intentions for her.
He heard her sharp intake of breath and crooned, "I'm thinking we might have a different kind of fun together."
He obviously wasn't thinking rationally.
I'm not thinking roses, too ordinary for this woman.
Normally he wouldn't go more than a few hours without thinking about his next meal, but Elisabeth filled his thoughts so completely, there was no room for anything else.
She smiled, thinking of the many times they played "Wingman" for each other and all the times he had nursed her through heartache.
While Jackson made drinks, Sarah introduced Connor who was thinking, cripes another one.
I've been thinking about that the last few days.
Once the shock wore off, rational thinking set in and he calmed down, feeling this might be an advantage.
I'm tired of thinking about it.
No, I am thinking tomorrow.
Thinking about all the times he nursed her through heartache, she now realized how difficult it must have been for him to witness her pain.
I wasn't thinking very clearly.
Thinking about enjoying winter outdoors with her and not having to worry about her freezing cheered him.
He grinned thinking how she would react to his true age.
I'm thinking something red.
I'm thinking of coming to see you.
She giggled, thinking him a nervous flier.
I just woke up and wasn't thinking clearly.
He grinned innocently thinking, Things are going to get back to normal here pretty quickly.
Jackson chuckled, thinking he should have put Sarah on this from the start.
I was thinking we could go out for a drink this afternoon.
He smiled, thinking what a wonderful mother Elisabeth would be, yet he could never give that to her.
I remember thinking over and over that I couldn't allow him to kill someone I love again, and when Connor removed the IV, I went insane with rage.
He did some of his best thinking in the saddle.
All the same, you'd better take a good, long look at what you're thinking about giving up.
Kind of silly, when you get to thinking about it, I guess.
You were thinking of her.
What was she thinking of – arousing him that way?
After all, shouldn't she be doing some thinking as well?
To be honest, thinking about the responsibility of making those decisions was overwhelming at times.
She suddenly felt foolish thinking that Guardian, a man trained to kill, wouldn't kill in cold blood or wouldn't succumb to any other vices.
Lana couldn't help thinking they were far too different.
All your fancy training won't … Lana half-listened to Elise's lecture, thinking about how she could hack into her micro with Elise's.
I'm thinking someone is destroying the fed buildings in case a certain fed is hiding there.
Brady sat in silence for a long moment, thinking hard.
The token seemed too small to make up for not thinking of it sooner.
Only now, he couldn't help thinking she was the only woman he'd ever met he would even consider taking such an oath to.
Restless, she returned to her room in the warehouse and lay on the bed, thinking hard.
Even hearing his voice, she couldn't help thinking she'd heard him because she wanted to hear his voice again, not because she actually had.
Gabriel gazed out the window of the small room, thinking.
He couldn't help thinking his mama had been a little tougher when she found out about the Immortals.
Kris sat beside her. Hannah's skin had gone from pale to gray, and her features looked gaunt. He couldn't help thinking Katie wouldn't survive a week down here if Hannah was suffering so badly after a day. He touched Hannah's hair, revolted when a handful came off in his hand.
Rhyn could almost see him thinking. In the end, Kris said nothing else, and Rhyn shook his head. For the first time, he'd tried to reason with Kris. He'd never do it again.
The man stopped, thinking he'd heard some movement behind him, but after listening a few minutes could discern no human sound and was satisfied he was alone.
He said he had been thinking of asking me for weeks.
I got thinking about it and figured maybe you ought to know.
You ain't thinking of giving up so soon, are you?
Why can't two people talk to each other without the rest of the world thinking they're screwing their brains out?
He still hoped she would awake in the morning thinking she had undressed herself and save them both the embarrassment that would otherwise follow.
Then, thinking his statement presumptive added, "When things settle down."
Fred was quiet for a moment, thinking.
Biking was usually Dean's thinking time, but his brain felt overused lately and had opted for a day off, restricting his thoughts to nothing more pressing than the next hill.
Just thinking of Billie gives me the willies.
I didn't have any luck with any of the dealers and then I got to thinking.
But Dean knew reality seldom replaces the passion of panic thinking.
I guess he was thinking about biking again, Randy commented.
We're not thinking clearly and there are too damn many unanswered questions.
There was no reason for her to be in Colorado except thinking her hubby was still alive and here.
I guess he started thinking he might still be connected and got scared.
He might start thinking if Cynthia Byrne's and David Dean's bodies show up.
What are you thinking about – second thoughts?
No, I was just thinking.
Why was she thinking about this now?
Thinking about it and acting on it were two different things... weren't they?
Here she was, thinking improper thoughts again.
She had to start thinking like a woman.
Maybe this was what they needed to do instead of thinking torrid thoughts about each other.
Thinking about approaching the conversation and actually starting the conversation were two entirely different things.
I was just thinking that you've had a decidedly positive influence on me.
No. I was just thinking.
She turned and reached for her purse, only then thinking of the fact that she had no money.
Thinking back, it seemed her mother always had a cup of coffee close by.
She smiled wistfully, thinking of their time together on the mountain.
To her way of thinking, it exposed too much breast, but no one was there to see it.
She was thinking about her desire to be with children – instead of how that would make him feel.
I was thinking about him all the time – until the twins came along.
He knew what she was thinking about? knew and enjoyed the attention.
I wasn't thinking of that at all.
I was thinking that we should share all this — not hog it all to ourselves.
Thinking a ride might put her in a better mood, she saddled Ed and released Princess and her daughters in the pasture.
She had to stop thinking of it that way.
Here she was, thinking of Alex again.
I wasn't thinking of selling it.
I was kind of thinking ... figuring some things ... about the ... ranch.
Interesting. You must have been thinking about this for a long time.
Alex was unusually quiet through breakfast and she assumed he was thinking about that darkness thing.
What were you thinking of?
I was thinking about a friend who was depressed and ready to give her baby to anyone.
I was thinking that when she got better, she wouldn't be able to get it back unless I had it.
That night she did a lot of thinking about the baby, Lori and Alex.
She'd learned to stop thinking when in the ring with him and listen to her senses, to include the mind control talent.
Standing in the desert sun, he couldn't help thinking she wasn't beyond his reach anymore.
For once, he didn't know what Damian might be thinking.
You're not thinking of trying to change your brother back.
Sofi, you aren't thinking of going to the immortal world, are you?
The silence grew awkward, and she found herself thinking of the last time they were together.
Jenn wiped her mind clean, instead thinking of Bianca, Jonny's sister.
So I was right in thinking it's better they—or Jonny—kills me, before you destroy our world to get to them.
Sirian's coldness had never struck her as anything but rigid discipline and cool thinking.
She was quiet, thinking quickly.
Lately, he'd been thinking of nothing but Rissa.
To his way of thinking, Carmen drifted his way most of the time because she either agreed or it didn't matter.
He'd probably been thinking about it all week.
Thinking he needed to say goodbye to an old friend, she agreed.
Are you thinking about running from the bison, Gerald?
I was only thinking about myself.
I meant thinking only about yourself didn't sound like you.
I've been thinking about making more trails – maybe putting some markers up so people can ride on their own.
About time she was thinking Sam might be the one she wanted to hire, Sam threw a kink into the process.
Carmen nodded, thinking Sam was going to comment on his past.
I'm thinking about starting some trails on the south side.
I wasn't thinking about protection.
I don't know what I was thinking about.
I was thinking about going out there and getting someone to carry it to the barn.
In the end she let Felipa leave thinking all was well.
He was probably thinking of Ed and how she had disobeyed him.
I'd love to have this puppy, and thank you for thinking about us.
The old Carmen was back – thinking one jump ahead of him.
Thinking about what he did to Carmen brought his mind to a boil.
What was he thinking?
It's just that... maybe it was wishful thinking, but I thought you two were getting along.
Here she was, thinking about a complete stranger as a companion.
Only the tiniest shred of doubt remained in her mind, and that was probably born of wishful thinking, not logic.
Thinking of Denton made it much less attractive.
She started cleaning the dishes, thinking all the while that he was too much like her father.
Was it wishful thinking, or was there a mutual attraction between them?
It was probably wishful thinking - nothing more.
She showered and dressed, thinking about his offhanded way of handing out compliments.
It's probably silly, but I was thinking that this land would be a good investment for a resort retreat.
I'm thinking about buying a house in the mountains.
His cat nuzzled one leg as he stood, thinking hard, in the middle of his bright condo.
I was thinking of getting here at seven fifty seven.
You thinking you're gonna win this game.
His gaze darkened, and Xander knew his long-time ally was thinking of their shared history from the time before the Schism that split the mortal and immortal worlds apart.
She was a fool, too, for thinking she could handle the situation on her own.
Her body caught on fire just thinking about it.
If I'm the first person whose mind you can't read, doesn't it scare you that you can't tell what I'm thinking?
He gave no sign of what he might be thinking.
Xander wasn't certain what Jessi might be thinking.
She definitely seemed to be thinking twice about sleeping with him.
Her eyes slid from Damian to him, and he gazed back, unable to read what she was thinking.
He couldn't help thinking she looked like some beautiful, otherworldly creature with her full lips, haunted eyes and curls that appeared silver in the moonlight.
If you don't start thinking like a God and stop thinking like a hormonal teen, I'll replace you, Xander warned in a low growl.
I am thinking like a God.
Thinking of what happened tomorrow did her no good, when she wasn't certain she'd live through the night.
But, further, every attempt to think clearly what those relations are, what we really mean, if we talk of a fixed order of events, forces upon us the necessity of thinking also that the different things which stand in relations or the different phases which follow each other cannot be merely externally strung together or moved about by some indefinable external power, in the form of some predestination or inexorable fate.
I turned round, thinking that it was one of the sisters talking to me - I was alone.
But when we have done our worst in unsettling them, we come to an ultimate point in the fact that it is we who are doubting, we who are thinking.
We are certain that we are thinking, and in so far as we are thinking we are.
Amongst the elements of our thought there are some which we can make and unmake at our pleasure; there are others which come and go without our wish; there is also a third class which is of the very essence of our thinking, and which dominates our conceptions.
Descartes began with the certainty that we are thinking beings; that region remains untouched; but up to its very borders the mechanical explanation of nature reigns unchecked.
But whilst all the organic processes in man go on mechanically, and though by reflex action he may repel attack unconsciously, still the first affirmation of the system was that man was essentially a thinking being; and, while we retain this original dictum, it must not be supposed that the mind is a mere spectator, or like the boatman in the boat.
It is not difficult to discern the influence of naïve materialism in contemporary thinking.
But experiment shows that in this condition much of the violin part sounds incomplete; and the truth appears to be that Haydn is thinking, like any modern composer, of the opposition of two solid bodies of tone - the pianoforte and the stringed instruments.
That was the general 18th-century way of thinking.
But nothing is more certain than that his thought is a strong solvent of the intuitionalist way of thinking; and he has had an immense influence in many directions.
But analytic thinking is victorious in morals, where the test of formal self-consistency distinguishes virtue from vice.
On one side, the world we know by valid processes of thinking cannot, we are told, be the real world.
It is not the first runnings of the stream of religious thinking which have given the world its theistic philosophies.
The element of givenness, dominant in empiricism, and partially surviving through intuitionalism even into Kant, is sublimated in Hegel's thinking.
He has profoundly influenced British thinking, but is little known abroad.
The God whom all our thinking feels after is the all-inclusive system of reality.
Brown and Morris in 1892 advanced strong reasons for thinking that cane-sugar, Ci2H22O11, is the first carbohydrate synthesized, and that the hexoses found in the plant result from the decomposition of this.
Swinburne agrees with Gifford in thinking Ford the author of the whole of the first act; and he is most assuredly right in considering that "there is no more admirable exposition of a play on the English stage."
This train of thinking naturally drew him towards the socialist philosophers of the school of Saint-Simon, whom he joined.
The vestments had been stored there since the time of the first high priest named Hyrcanus, and Herod had taken them over along with the tower, thinking that his possession of them would deter the Jews from rebellion against his rule.
Mendelssohn's translation of the Pentateuch into German with a new commentary by himself and others introduced the Jews to more modern ways of thinking.
A juster view of early history is probably obtained by thinking of the countries round the Mediterranean as interacting on one another than by separating Palestine and Asia Minor as Asiatic.
He seemed to be thinking only of the convenience and pleasure of his guests, not as a rule of artificial breeding as from Chesterfield or Madame Geniis, but from innate feeling.
He had been bred by his father in a great veneration for the syllogistic logic as an antidote against confused thinking.
Sometimes he would pass hours thinking of a certain illustrious lady, devising means of seeing her and of doing deeds that would win her favour; at other times the thoughts suggested by the books got the upper hand.
His manner of thinking is clear, calm and logical, and he has certainly given the most complete exposition of what may be called Christian pantheism.
This author is indeed interested to prosecute vigorous and substantial thinking, but the mainspring of his interest is the conviction that such thought is significant for inner and outer life.
They did much to excite thinking, and advanced many problems by more than one step, but they did not furnish a coherent system, and the doctrines which were then new have since been worked out with greater consistency and clearness.
According to this everything, even above being and thinking, is called En Soph (a7retpos); He is the space of the universe containing TO 7rav, but the universe is not his space.
At the moment when this doctrine had come to be generally accepted by the thinking part of the nation, the Jews found themselves dispersed among foreign communities, and from that time were a subject people environed by aliens, Babylonian, Persian and Greek.
No doubt these airy paradoxes were not always seriously taken; but it is significant that a common Roman proverb identified "philosophizing" (philosophatur) with thinking out some dirty trick.
Catholicism increasingly took for granted that a man imperilled his soul by thinking for himself; Protestantism replied that he could certainly lose it, if he left his thinking to another.
In the same way, the transition from (x 2 +4x+4) - 4= 21 to x 2 +4x+4 = 25, or from (5+2) 2 =25 to x+2= 1 /25, is arithmetical; but the transition from 5 2 + 45+4= 25 to (5+2) 2 = 25 is algebraical, since it involves a change of the number we are thinking about.
All thinking men were increasingly conscious that no progress was possible until Croat and Serb presented an united front against German-Magyar predominance.
And if we cannot without much hesitation admit that Isaiah was really the first preacher of a personal Messiah whose record has come down to us, yet his editors certainly had good reason for thinking him capable of such a lofty height of prophecy.
An important academical position was, on the other hand, one of the reasons why a physician not very different in his way of thinking from the English physicians of the age of Queen Anne was able to take a far more predominant position in the medical world.
The outgoing signory secured the election of another which was of their way of thinking, and on the 22nd of May 1498 Savonarola was condemned to death and executed the following day.
Like Mach, he started from the principle of economy of thinking, and in the Kritik endeavoured to explain pure experience in relation to knowledge and environment.
When Eusebius placed MwpavIel near Eleutheropolis it is not likely that he is thinking of Mareshah (Maresa), for he speaks of the former as a village and of the latter as a ruin 2 m.
Only the interest of the matter prevents one from thinking of Rivarol's ill-natured remark upon Condorcet, that he wrote with opium on a page of lead.
It is worth noting, however, that Herder in his provokingly tentative way of thinking comes now and again very near ideas made familiar to us by Spencer and Darwin.
This is illustrated by the difficulties inherent in the conception of Cause, Space, Time, Matter, Motion, the Infinite, and the Absolute, and by the" relativity of knowledge,"which precludes knowledge of the Unknowable, since" all thinking is relationing."Yet the Unknowable may exist, and we may even have an" indefinite knowledge "of it, positive, though vague and extralogical.
But there are no reasons for thinking the performance ironical or insincere, and it cannot be doubted that Defoe would have been honestly unable even to understand Lamb's indignation.
As an example of the minuteness of description, an inquirer, thinking of a brother in India, an officer in the army, whose hair had suffered in an encounter with a tiger, had described to her an officer in undress uniform, with bald scars through the hair on his temples, such as he really bore.
The chronicle of Villehardouin is justly held to be the very best presentation we possess of the spirit of chivalry - not the designedly exalted and poetized chivalry of the romances, not the self-conscious and deliberate chivalry of the 14th century, but the unsophisticated mode of thinking and acting which brought about the crusades, stimulated the vast literary development of the 12th and 13th centuries, and sent knights-errant, principally though not wholly of French blood, to establish principalities and kingdoms throughout Europe and the nearer East.
The province of reverent theology is to aid accurate thinking by the use of metaphysical or psychological terms. Its definitions are no more an end in themselves than an analysis of good drinking water, which by itself leaves us thirsty but encourages us to drink.
They have a superstitious objection to firing a gun, thinking that it offends the deities of the woods and valleys, and brings down rain.
Simultaneously von Zastrow, under the same impression, had ordered his corps artillery to advance by the same road, and von Goeben, thinking his troops in front required support, had sent forward an infantry brigade by the same line of road.
He thus, in the course of his official business, gradually acquired principles and settled ways of thinking which he afterwards expressed in writing.
In the revival of learning, scholarship supplanted scholasticism, and the old ways of medieval thinking were forgotten.
Everywhere he bent his energies to the exposition of the new thoughts which were beginning to effect a revolution in the thinking world.
The soul of man is a thinking monad, and stands mid-way between the divine intelligence and the world of external things.
Catherine, thinking her influence menaced, sought to regain it, first by the murder of Coligny, and, when that had failed, by the massacre of St Bartholomew (q.v.).
It effected a revolution in his mode of thinking; so completely did the Kantian doctrine of the inherent moral worth of man harmonize with his own character, that his life becomes one effort to perfect a true philosophy, and to make its principles practical maxims. At first he seems to have thought that the best method for accomplishing his object would be to expound Kantianism in a popular, intelligible form.
He reached Philadelphia in October 1726, but a few months later Denham died, and Franklin was induced by large wages to return to his old employer Keimer; with Keimer he quarrelled repeatedly, thinking himself ill used and kept only to train apprentices until they could in some degree take his place.
He combined the principle of pure living with that of free thinking, and held that instruction must have regard to the mental capacity of the hearer.
As we advance from the logic to the metaphysics and from that to his ontology, it becomes clear that the concepts are only " categories " or predicates of a reality lying outside of them, and there is an ultimate division between the world as the object or matter of thought and the thinking or moving principle which gives its life.
Nor is it possible at any point in knowledge to prove the existence of a merely given in whose construction the thinking subject has played no part nor a merely thinking subject in whose structure the object is not an organic factor.
The " transcendental movement," which sprang out of German affiliations and produced as one of its results the well-known community of Brook Farm (1841-1847), under the leadership of Dr George Ripley, was a Massachusetts growth, and in passing away it left, instead of traces of an organization, a sentiment and an aspiration for higher thinking which gave Emerson his following.
We have no ground for thinking that the second part ever existed independently as a separate book.
There does not, then, seem to be good reason for thinking that the work which proceeded from the hands of Mark differed widely in character and contents from the Gospel which now bears his name.
It is the method, or rather the manner of thinking, of which that style is the garment, which has in reality exercised influence on the world.
For all that, the theological thinking is characteristically Jewish, and such guidance as Jewish thinkers required was mainly given by Greek culture.
They required humouring, and their march discipline was very elastic. But in battle the "thinking bayonets" resolutely obeyed orders, even though it were to attack a Marye's Hill, or a "Bloody Angle," for they had undertaken their task and would carry it through unflinchingly.
But the method observed by these Gnostics in thinking out the plan and the history of the universe is by no means thoroughgoing.
But, as a body of exposition, it has the real unity which results from a mode of thinking homogeneous throughout and the general absence of such contradictions as would arise from an imperfect digestion of the subject.
To set forth how best to do our thinking, rather than to follow the triumphs achieved in any particular line of exploration, and to present the point we have now reached in the method or principles of palaeontology, is the chief purpose of this article.
It was also about this same period that the grave scandal of the Chinese and Malabar rites began to attract attention in Europe, and to make thinking men ask seriously whether the Jesuit missionaries in those parts taught anything which could fairly be called Christianity at all.
But the Fichtean teaching appeared on the one hand to identify too closely the ultimate ground of the universe of rational conception with the finite, individual spirit, and on the other hand to endanger the reality of the world of nature by regarding it too much after the fashion of subjective idealism, as mere moment, though necessitated, in the existence of the finite thinking mind.
Schelling had neither the strength of thinking nor 4-he acquired knowledge necessary to hold the balance between the abstract treatment of cosmological notions and the concrete researches of special science.
This document, in every line of which madness is legible, convinced most thinking people that Eric was unfit to reign.
The soul is only the thinking part of the body, and with the body it passes away.
Alexander, thinking it dangerous to allow the father to live, sent orders to Media for the assassination of Parmenio.
Now it is not likely that Aristotle either, after having so often identified pleasure with activity, would say that the identification is absurd though it appears true to some persons, of whom he would in that case be one, or, having once disengaged the pleasure of perceiving and thinking from the acts of perceiving and thinking, would go backwards and confuse them.
It is more likely that Aristotle identified pleasure with activity in the De Anima, the Metaphysics and the three moral treatises, as we have seen; but that afterwards some subsequent Peripatetic, considering that the pleasure of perceiving or thinking is not the same as perceiving or thinking, declared the previous identification of pleasure with activity absurd.
The real order of Aristotle's philosophy is that of Aristotle's mind, revealed in his writings, and by the general view of thinking, science, philosophy and all learning therein contained.
Aristotle's view of thinking in science and philosophy is essentially comprehensive; but it is not so wide as to become indefinite.
Aristotle was primarily a metaphysician, a philosopher of things, who uses the objective method of proceeding from being to thinking.
Nature does not aim at God as end, but God, thinking and willing ends, produces and acts on nature.
The French, who naturally looked to German methods for inspiration, have come to apply them more particularly in the development of their cavalry and artillery, especially in that of the former, which has taken in the French army an ever higher place as its observing and thinking organ.
Those who did so were suspected of an inclination towards novel and dangerous modes of thinking, then rife on the Continent and slowly finding their way to England.
Altogether Biran's work presents a very remarkable specimen of deep metaphysical thinking directed by preference to the psychological aspect of experience.
God, who is an eternal, perfect, living being, thinking, but without matter, and therefore not a body.
Spinozism, however, though it tramples down the barrier between body and soul, is not yet metaphysical idealism, because it does not reduce extension to thought, but only says that the same substance is at once extended and thinking - a position more akin to materialism.
F His point was that there are no things in themselves different from minds or acting on them; that man is no product of things; nor does his thinking arise from passive sensations caused by things; nor is the end of his existence attainable in a world of things; but that he is the absolute free activity constructing his own world, which is only his own determination, his self-imposed limit, and means to his duty which allies him with God.
Hence it is the office of the theory of knowledge to show that the Ego posits the thing per se as only existing for itself, a noumenon in the sense of a product of its own thinking.
Hence he united theoretical and practical reason, which Kant had separated, and both with will, which Kant had distinguished; for he held that the Ego, in positing the non-Ego, posits both its own limit and its own means to the end, duty, by its activity of thinking which requires will.
Lastly, Fichte called this system realism, in so far as it posits the thing in itself as another thing; idealism, in so far as it posits it as a noumenon which is a product of its own thinking; and on the whole real idealism or ideal realism.
No realists, they came nearer to Spinozistic pantheism and to Leibnitzian monadism, but only on their idealistic side; for they would not allow that extension and body are different from thinking and mind.
Following, however, in the footsteps of Schelling, he idealizes the one extended and thinking substance into one mental being; but he thinks that its essence consists in unconscious intelligence and will, of which all individual intelligent wills are only activities.
At this point, having rejected both the Newtonian mechanism of bodily substances and the Leibnitzian automatism of monadic substances, he flew to the Spinozistic unity of substance; except that, according to him, the one substance, God, is not extended at all, and is not merely thinking, but is a thinking, willing and acting spirit.
If he has any originality, it consists in substituting for the association of ideas the " economy of thinking," by which he means that all theoretical conceptions of physics, such as atoms, molecules, energy, &c., are mere helps to facilitate our consideration of things.
In the course of his learned studies on the history of mechanics he became deeply impressed with Galileo's appeals to simplicity as a test of truth, and converted what is at best only one characteristic of thinking into its essence.
He thinks that there is a notion of understanding (Verstandesbegrif), under which every new experience is subsumed, but that it has been developed by former experience, instinctively, and by the development of the race, as part of the economy of thinking.
Avenarius held a view of knowledge very like that of Mach's view of the economy of thinking.
It is curious that Avenarius should have brought forward this artificial hypothesis as the natural view of the world, without reflecting that on the one hand the majority of mankind believes that the environment (R) exists, has existed, and will exist, without being a counterpart of any living being as central part (C); and that on the other hand it is so far from being natural to man to believe that sensation and thought (E) are different from, and merely dependent on, his body (C), that throughout the Homeric poems, though soul is required for other purposes, all thinking as well as sensation is regarded as a purely bodily operation.
Wundt supposes not only that all organisms have outer will, the will to act, but also that all thinking is inner will - the will to think.
But it does not follow that thought is will, or even that there is no thinking without either impulse or will proper.
The real source of thinking is evidence.
Wundt, however, having supposed that all thinking consists of ideas, next supposes that all thinking is willing.
He supposes that all agency, and therefore the agency of thinking, is will.
In detail, to express this supposed inner will of thinking, he borrows from Leibnitz and Kant the term " apperception," but in a sense of his own.
Wundt, in consequence, thinking with Kant that apperception is a spontaneous activity, and with Fichte that this activity requires will, and indeed that all activity is will, infers that apperception is inner will.
According to him, that which acts in all organisms, that which acts in all thinking, that which divides unitary experience into subject and object, the source of self-consciousness, the unity of our mental life, " the most proper being of the individual subject is will."
In short, his whole voluntarism means that, while the inorganic world is mere object, all organization is congealed will, and all thinking is apperceptive will.
Not, says Wundt, by association, as Hume said, but by thinking; not, however, by a priori thinking, as Kant said, but by logical thinking, by applying the logical principle of ground and consequent (which Leibnitz had called the principle of sufficient reason) as a causal law to empirical appearances.
Wundt, however, having satisfied himself of the power of mere logical thought beyond experience, goes on to further apply his hypothesis, and supposes that, in dealing with the physical world, logical thinking having added to experience the " supplementary notion " of causality as the connexion of appearances which vary together, adds also the " supplementary notion " of substance as substratum of the connected appearances.
Thirdly, on the grounds that logical thinking adds the notion of substance, as substrate, to experience of the physical, but not of the psychical, and that the most proper being of mind is will, he concludes that wills are not active substances, but substance-generating activities (" nicht thatige Substanzen sondern substanzerzeugende Thdtigkeiten," System, 429) What kind of metaphysics, then, follows from this compound of psychology and epistemology?
Hence, according to Wundt, the world we know is still unitary experience, distinguished, not separated, into subject and object, aggregates of ideas analysed by judgment and combined by inference, an object of idea elaborated into causes and substances by logical thinking, at most a world of our ideas composed out of our sensations, and arranged under our categories of our understanding by our inner wills, or a world of our ideating wills; but nothing else.
Though again in the Transcendental Dialect he spoke of pure reason conceiving " ideals " of noumena, he did not mean that a noumenon is nothing but a thought arising only through thinking, or projected by reason, but meant that pure reason can only conceive the " ideal " while, over and above the " ideal " of pure reason, a noumenon is a real thing, a thing in itself, which is not indeed known, but whose existence is postulated by practical reason in the three instances of God, freedom, and immortality.
Spinoza answered realistically that the one substance is both extended and thinking.
Under the second head, according to Ward, as according to Wundt, knowledge is experience; we must start with the duality of subject and object, or perpetual reality, phenomenon, in the unity of experience, and not believe, as realists do, that either subject or object is distinct from this unity; moreover, experience requires " conation," because it is to interesting objects that the subject attends; conation is required for all synthesis, associative and intellective; thinking is doing; presentation, feeling, conation are one inseparable whole; and the unity of the subject is due to activity and not to a substratum.
But perhaps Caird's phrase "a perfect intelligence" has beguiled him into thinking that the one subject of universal experience is not mere mankind, but God Himself.
Here again he appears to be thinking of the western tribes; for elsewhere he states that some of the eastern peoples were armed with short swords and round shields - which probably were of comparatively small size, like those used in later times.
As to the source from which it was derived opinions still differ, some thinking that it was borrowed from the Romans a century or two before this time, while others place its origin much farther back and trace it to one of the ancient Greek alphabets.
To his thinking, poison and the dagger were less to be feared by the pope than the lust of power.
When Breasted renders "Great Bend" of the Euphrates he is probably thinking of the great.
Though the spirit and the language of Plotinus is closely allied to that of pantheism, the result of his thinking is not pantheism but mysticism.
When Lysias, in his Olympiacus (spoken here), calls it " the fairest spot of Greece," he was doubtless thinking also - or perhaps chiefly - of the masterpieces which art, in all its forms, had contributed to the embellishment of this national sanctuary.
His other philosophical works are An Introduction to the Art of Thinking (1761), Elements of Criticism (1762), Sketches of the History of Man (1774).
For in the first place there seems to be no good reason for thinking that the Tupaias feed to any considerable extent upon prey of that kind, and in the second place the resemblance is due to characters which may be merely adaptations to a similar mode of life.
Thinking that the ships were perhaps too far to the northward, Comm.
The fundamental principle of thought is, according to him, the law of identity; logical thinking is real thinking.
Bowdich and Hutchinson, thinking that British interests and the safety of the mission were endangered, took the negotiation into their own hands.
The facts that he used to walk with Bacon at Gorhambury, and would jot down with exceptional intelligence the eager thinker's sudden " notions," and that he was employed to make the Latin version of some of the Essays, prove nothing when weighed against his own disregard of all Bacon's principles, and the other evidence that the impulse to independent thinking came to him not from Bacon, and not till some time after Bacon's death in 1626.1 So far as we have any positive evidence, it was not before the year 1629 that Hobbes entered on philosophical inquiry.
Euclid's manner of proof became the model for his own way of thinking upon all subjects.
After 1675, he passed his time at his patron's seats in Derbyshire, occupied to the last with intellectual work in the early morning and in the afternoon hours, which it had long been his habit to devote to thinking and to writing.
He took a foremost part in almost every good work in his diocese, social or educational, political or religious; while he found time also to cultivate friendly relations with thinking men and women of all schools, and to help all and sundry who came to him for advice and assistance.
He took up the problems of mind very much after the fashion of the Scottish school, as then represented by Reid, Stewart and Brown, but made a new start, due in part to Hartley, and still more to his own independent thinking.
Even in the old Greek religion before Alexander there had been large elements of foreign origin, and that the Greeks should now do honour to the gods of the lands into which they came, as we find the Cilician and Syrian Greeks doing to Baal-tars and Baalmarcod and the Egyptian Greeks to the gods of Egypt, was only in accordance with the primitive way of thinking.
Mahomet's mission was Rot to Europeans, but to a people who, though quick-witted and receptive, were not accustomed to logical thinking, while they had outgrown their ancient religion.
Though always known as one of the ablest men of the Liberal party and conspicuous during the Boer War of1899-1902as a Liberal Imperialist, the choice of Mr Haldane for the task of thinking out a new army organization on business lines had struck many people as curious.
From the moment the apparent recrudescence of the Liberal split over this question seemed to have misled Mr Balfour, who resigned office on the 4th of December, into thinking that difficulties would arise over the formation of a Liberal cabinet; but, whether or not the rumour was correct that a blunder had been made at Stirling and that explanations had ensued which satisfied Mr Asquith and Sir Edward Grey, this anticipation proved unjustified.
In October 1787 he published an attack on the Constitution; but in the Virginia convention he urged its ratification, arguing that it was too late to attempt to amend it without endangering the Union, and thinking that Virginia's assent would be that of the necessary ninth state.
His fear was that England would become a nation of factory-workers, thinking more of their trade-union than of their country.
In 1544 a relation of his own, named German Gardiner, whom he employed as his secretary, was put to death for treason in reference to the king's supremacy, and his enemies insinuated to the king that he himself was of his secretary's way of thinking.
There are special reasons for thinking so in regard to certain passages, 'as for example the mission of the seventy disciples and the parable of the good Samaritan, although they are not contained in St Matthew's Gospel.
His philosophy was not one aspect of his intellectual life, to be contemplated from others; it was the ripe fruit of concentrated reflection, and had become the one all-embracing form and principle of his thinking.
He then filled up the hole, thinking his secret safe; but the reeds which grew up over the spot proclaimed it to all the world.
By the end of 1808 it was obvious to every thinking Swede that the king was insane.
The pope thinking that the whole dispute was a monkish quarrel, contented himself with asking the general of the Augustinian Eremites to keep his monks quiet.
The agenda of the diet contained many things seriously affecting all Germany, but the one problem which every one was thinking about was how Luther would be dealt with.
The orthodoxy of Lucaris himself continued to be a matter of debate in the Eastern Church, even Dositheos, in view of the reputation of the great patriarch, thinking it expedient to gloss over his heterodoxy in the interests of the Church.
The sophist of whom the Platonic Protagoras is here thinking was Hippias of Elis, who gave popular lectures, not only upon the four subjects just mentioned, but also upon grammar, mythology, family history, archaeology, Homerology and the education of youth.
His hatred of system, incapacity for abstract thinking, and intense personality rendered it impossible for him to do more than utter the disjointed, oracular, obscure dicta which gained for him among his friends the name of "Magus of the North."
His father used his utmost influence to have the guilty parties (for more than one were concerned, and there are grounds for thinking that it was not a fair duel) brought to justice.
Thinking it useless to continue the struggle, he sailed to Brundisium, where he remained until the r 2th of August 47, when, after receiving a kind letter from Caesar, he went to Rome.
We have already seen that Mahomet himself prepared the way for this transference; Abu Bekr and Omar likewise helped it; the Emigrants were unanimous among themselves in thinking that the precedence and leadership belonged to them as of right.
This Abu Salama seems to have had scruples against recognizing Abul-Abbas as the successor of his brother Ibrahim, and to have expected that the Mandi, whom he looked for from Medina, would not be slow in making his appearance, little thinking that an Abbasid would present himself as such.
He represents the spirit and temper of the free American of that day, and it was a part of his way of thinking and acting that he put his whole life and interest into the conflict.
Hamilton's Philosophy, and there is no doubt that the empirical school owed a great deal to his sound, accurate thinking, untrammelled by any reverence for authority, technique and convention.
In this highest effort of reason, which is indeed God thinking in man, thought and being are at one, the opposition of being and thought is overcome.
Still thinking that foreign nations could be coerced through their commercial interests, he scouted as visionary the idea that Great Britain would go to war on a refusal to carry Jay's treaty into effect, thinking it inconceivable that Great Britain "would wantonly make war" upon a country which was the best market she had in the world for her manufactures, and one with which her export trade was so much larger than her import.
Upon the accession of the Republican party to power in 180 r, Madison became secretary of state in Jefferson's cabinet, a position for which he was well fitted both because he possessed to a remarkable degree the gifts of careful thinking and discreet and able speaking, and of large constructive ability; and because he was well versed in constitutional and international law and practised a fairness in discussion essential to a diplomat.
He was anticipated of course by many generations of spontaneous thinking (logica naturalis).
But at length many of them became formal logicians, who held that logic is the investigation of formal thinking, or consistent conception, judgment and reasoning; that it shows how we infer formal truths of consistency without material truth of signifying things; that, as the science of the form or process, it must entirely abstract from the matter, or objects, of thought; and that it does not tell us how we infer from experience.
The science of inference again rightly emphasizes the formal thinking of the syllogism in which the combination of premises involves the conclusion.
The formal thinking of syllogism alone is merely necessary consequence; but when its premises are necessary principles, its conclusions are not only necessary consequents but also necessary truths.
Lastly, the science of inference is not indeed the science of sensation, memory and experience, but at the same time it is the science of using those mental operations as data of inference; and, if logic does not show how analogical and inductive inferences directly, and deductive inferences indirectly, arise from experience, it becomes a science of mere thinking without knowledge.
When, again, Bradley and Bosanquet speak of the universal as if it always meant one ideal content referred to reality, they forget that in universal judgments of existence, such as " All men existing are mortal," we believe that every individually existing man dies his own death individually, though similarly to other men; and that we are thinking neither of ideas nor of reality; but of all existent individual men being individually but similarly determined.
Inference is a deeper thinking process from judgments to judgment, which only occasionally and partially emerges in the linguistic process from propositions to proposition.
It is to be regarded as a propaedeutic, 12 which, although it is in contact with reality in and through the metaphysical import of the axioms, or again in the fact that the categories, though primarily taken as forms of predication, must also be regarded as kinds of being, is not directly concerned with object-reality, but with the determination for the thinking subject of what constitutes the knowledge correlative to being.
It provoked the distinction of what was true secundum fidem and what was true secundum rationem among even sincere champions of orthodoxy, and their opponents accepted with a smile so admirable a mask for that thinking for themselves to which the revival of hope of progress had spurred them.
Kant's Logic. Herbart's admitted allegiance, however, was Kantian with the qualification, at a relatively advanced stage of his thinking, that it was " of the year 1828 " - that is, after controversy had brought out implications of Kant's teaching not wholly contemplated by Kant himself.
Even in his " logic " Kant speaks of abstraction from all particular objects of thought rather than of a resolution of concrete thinking into thought and its " other " as separable co-operating factors in a joint product.
They passed easily from the acceptance of a priori forms of thinking to that of forms of a priori thinking, and could plead the example of Kant's logic.
The forms of thought and what gives thought its particular content in concrete acts of thinking could not be regarded as subsisting in a purely external and indifferent relation one to the other.
Similarly forms of thinking, the law of contradiction not excepted, have their meaning only in reference to determinate content, even though distributively all determinate contents are dispensable.
There is a permissible abstraction, and in general they practise this, and although they narrow its range unduly, it is legitimately to be applied to certain characters of thinking.
To allow, however, that abstraction admits of degrees, and that it never obliterates all reference to that from which it is abstracted, is to take a step forward in the direction of the correlation of logical forms with the concrete processes of actual thinking.
Pure thinking or philosophizing is with a view to philosophy or knowledge as an interconnected system of all sciences or departmental forms of knowledge, the mark of knowledge being its identity for all thinking minds.