philosopher

Example Sentences

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In his program note, Sharon quotes the doom-laden philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer as an inspiration for Wagner’s nothing-is-real masterpiece.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Jospin, who has two children with his first wife, also remarried that year, to feminist philosopher Sylviane Agacinski.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Married in later life to the philosopher Syvliane Agacinski, who survives him, Jospin was respected as an honest – if somewhat technocratic – left-wing leader.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Just as Pilates has a patron saint in Joseph Pilates, the field of somatics has the late Thomas Hanna, a philosopher and student of neurology who coined the term in 1976.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

I often thought he had the mind of a mad genius and the heart of a philosopher.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi