PHILOSOPHER in a Sentence

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1. Some old people are philosophical about death.
2. The philosopher speculated about time and space.
3. The debate was getting too philosophical for me.
4. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree.
5. The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.

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 Meanings and Examples of PHILOSOPHER
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philosopher
 n.  a specialist in philosophy
 n.  a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity
Classic Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
1  Candide, who trembled like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In III
2  He was just going to jump after him, but was prevented by the philosopher Pangloss, who demonstrated to him that the Bay of Lisbon had been made on purpose for the Anabaptist to be drowned.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In V
3  Had not Pangloss been hanged," said Candide, "he would give us good counsel in this emergency, for he was a profound philosopher.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  This philosopher was an honest man; but he had been robbed by his wife, beaten by his son, and abandoned by his daughter who got a Portuguese to run away with her.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
5  We must allow that the others were at least as wretched as he; but Candide hoped that the philosopher would entertain him during the voyage.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
6  The old philosopher, whose name was Martin, embarked then with Candide for Bordeaux.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XX
7  In the neighbourhood there lived a very famous Dervish who was esteemed the best philosopher in all Turkey, and they went to consult him.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXX
8  He had gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the thoughtful visage of a philosopher.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
9  On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW
10  One gets to be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
11  Vanity has a right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with his rags.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
12  In Paris, even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the Piraeus.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
13  He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
14  If the philosopher succeeds in fixing, for a moment, for purposes of observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls into doleful and useful meditation.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
15  These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, set the philosopher to thinking.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Witiout philosopher man cannot know what he makes ;without religion he cannot know why.
2  The philosopher speculated about time and space.
3  The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.
4  The philosophical problems of chance and of free will are closely related.
5  The concept that destiny is predetermined is a religious dogma and a philosophical delusion.
6  His philosophical writings are imbued with religious belief.
7  Some old people are philosophical about death.
8  The debate was getting too philosophical for me.
9  The content of philosophical works is cerebral in nature and requires much thought.
10  The young Plato was drawn to the Agora to hear the philosophical discourse of Socrates and his followers.
11  An aphorism differs from an adage in that it is more philosophical or scientific.
12  After all, people with a naturalistic worldview make philosophical inferences about the world supposedly based on the scientific evidence.
13  Do not certain ingenious philosophers teach this doctrine, and ought not we to be grateful to them?
14  After reading these stodgy philosophers, I find Bertrand Russell's pellucid style very enjoyable.
15  Such an idea is germinal, I am certain that it will influence thinkers and philosophers for many generations.