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Higher thought

Higher thought \Higher thought\ See New thought, below.

Usage examples of "higher thought".

The cause of dullness of the brain is some obstruction in it which does not allow the higher thought to be communicated to it.

To say that all higher thought is based on metaphor and metonym is one thing.

Go up before the Tribunes and declare, 'I have no basis for my statement, honoured Tribunes, except that I do know that Frey is a mechanical idiot and incapable of higher thought.

The higher thought is ineffable, a mystery that can be experienced but never explained.

It can also eliminate higher thought processes, reducing you to creatures of instinct—.

They seemed to consist largely of grunts and groans, of the kinds of sounds animals would make: animals incapable of reason and speech and higher thought.

While he is free of intelligence, he is also free of the pains and travails higher thought brings.

Sometimes all higher thought processes are lost and the virus reduces its host to a mindless animal.

It had to be hypnosis, some method using high-speed strobing and special sonics that operated right at the nervous system level, something that cut in between her higher thought processes and her physical responses.

They were viewed as egotistical, testosterone-saturated thugs lacking any qualities of mercy or abilities of higher thought.