But we need people like all of you in this room, leading thinkers.

Withher passes an era of public intellectuals who stood for marginalised n oppressed n gave them a voice.

Metaphysics James and Dewey were empirical thinkers in the most straightforward fashion experience is the ultimate test and experience is what needs to be explained.

(i) The ongoing lack of clarity concerning all the circumstances surrounding the suspicious deaths and killings of intellectuals and political activists in late 1998 and early 1999

And these and many similar experiences convinced me that there are just tons of bright kids in Africa inventive kids, intellectual kids and starved of opportunity.

Some meditators, without trying to stop it, but simply by being completely open, thinking that that bang is just going to be just a small event like a shooting star, they are able not to move at all.

And that led to Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, to say, All the great thinkers of humanity have left happiness in the vague so that they could define each of them could define their own terms.

Although this view of ethics has often been challenged, many of the objections have come from religious thinkers who appealed to God s commands.

It is absurd to suggest that European visionaries such as Adenauer and de Gaulle failed to realize the consequences of their decision to admit Turkey as an associate member of the EEC.

American newspapers need to publish op ed pieces not only by Americans interpreting the Middle East, but also by representative thinkers from the Middle East itself.

True, great thinkers like John Maynard Keynes and the late Nobel laureate James Tobin floated various ideas for taxing financial transactions as a way to reduce economic volatility.

We don't go home at the end of the day and think, Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points.

In a real struggle over things that actually matter, we must assume that we are up against thinking opponents, who may understand some things about us that we don t know about ourselves.

Can it really be true that four of the world s five most influential thinkers come from the humanities, and 3 4 from philosophy? To answer that question, we have to ask what GDI measures when it compiles its ranking of Global Thought Leaders.

The mind, our most valuable and precious resource, through which we experience every single moment of our life, the mind that we rely upon to be happy, content, emotionally stable as individuals, and at the same time to be kind and thoughtful and considerate in our relationships with others.