How to Use philosopher in a Sentence

philosopher

noun

• Benet’s Luke Bafia plays baseball the way a philosopher ponders the state of the world.
  — Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2022
• As a wise philosopher named Huey Lewis once opined, that’s the power of love!
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2024
• Asha, the daughter of a philosopher, reflects the hope and ideals of a people.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023
• Like the philosopher Socrates did, strive for a less cluttered life at home and work.
  — John Pierce, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• This year marks the 300th anniversary of the great philosopher’s birth.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• Thomas Hobbes was one of the most clear-eyed and therefore one of the bleakest of social philosophers.
  — John Banville, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
• Or, in the words of the ancient philosophers, whatever floats your boat.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• The original coiner of the term was French philosopher Edgar Morin, who introduced the term in the 1990s.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
• The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes went about with a lantern in search of an honest man.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• The Supreme Court’s job is to say what the law is, not to be a body of philosopher kings to impose progressive outcomes.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• Thomas Sowell, the economist and philosopher, made this point to me about ten years ago.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
• And which actor could measure up to her as the high-minded philosopher Palmer Joss?
  — Vulture, 29 June 2022
• But O’Keeffe, in the end, wasn’t carrying out a philosopher’s program.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• The philosophers invited the tech billionaires to dance.
  — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
• This all feels like a philosopher king increasing his grip on the U.S. senate.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
• The French philosopher has been traveling to and reporting on Ukraine for years.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
• The philosopher is known to have sailed across the Gulf of Naples on a rescue mission to help those fleeing the devastation.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• The Fairy Godmother is replaced by Alidoro, a philosopher and tutor to the Prince.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2022
• The Oxford philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards notes that this argument, like the one above, proves too much.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 18 Sep. 2024
• The history of mankind, as the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel believed, is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 3 May 2022
• Weil held an exacting view of the philosopher’s mandate.
  — Robert Zaretsky, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
• And then there’s the idea, fueled by philosophers and pop culture, that AI bots could one day threaten human life.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2023
• He's referred to as a modern-day philosopher and was actually just a guest on the third season of my show.
  — Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Oct. 2022
• Machelet was a chemist and philosopher, and is best known for his work on the theory of the conservation of energy. . . .
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• Across eight episodes stuffed full of dull monologues in a country 3,000 miles away from the action of the war, the philosopher’s quest feels both self-serving and arrogant.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• So which Sydney Smith did the dictation exercise refer to—the son or the philosopher?
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
• Some physicists and philosophers have taken the statement at face value.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
• So there’s the character, a philosopher with high ideals, and then there’s the plot—a woman’s life quickly unravels.
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Hank is great at thinking about it all, both from a lawyer’s perspective and almost from a philosopher’s perspective.
  — The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024
• To detail how this may be done, Heidegger begins as any good philosopher would, with a distinction.
  — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024