How to Use philosopher in a Sentence

philosopher

noun

• Ord is not the first philosopher to propose that the end is nigh.
  — Corinne Purtill, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2020
• This is a moment that philosophers have warned us about for years.
  — Kate Crawford, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024
• No doubt this is the case for many philosophers and physicists as well.
  — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
• No doubt this is the case for many philosophers and physicists as well.
  — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Or for a philosopher, for that matter.
  — Caleb Crain, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• But philosophers are now in high demand.
  — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 3 June 2026
• Of course, these questions have not just been asked by late philosophers.
  — Arianna Huffington, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
• The philosopher progressed—odd word!
  — Caleb Crain, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• Such puzzles have intrigued philosophers for a long time.
  — Maria Balaska, Time, 20 Dec. 2025
• Like the philosopher Socrates did, strive for a less cluttered life at home and work.
  — John Pierce, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• Grimes, meanwhile, urged artists to think of their work as philosophers, and poets.
  — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 9 June 2026
• Heather says her goal as a philosopher is to understand time in itself.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2021
• To be a citizen is always, at least in part, to be a philosopher.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 13 Oct. 2025
• These days, the single mother of a teen girl is a working philosopher.
  — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
• The sentence stayed in, and every philosopher who has read the book has bristled at it.
  — Ray Monk, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• Asha, the daughter of a philosopher, reflects the hope and ideals of a people.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023
• But at the same time, philosophers tend not to respect scientists enough.
  — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• That can’t be said for philosopher Soren Kierkegaard’s work on the subject.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
• Or, in the words of the ancient philosophers, whatever floats your boat.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• As a wise philosopher named Huey Lewis once opined, that’s the power of love!
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2024
• Only the philosopher is able to escape the cave and see the way things really are.
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
• America should heed the warning of a philosopher.
  — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2026
• Still, her question seemed more likely to come from a philosopher than a plant geneticist.
  — Claire L. Evans, Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2025
• Solitude is not seen as a negative word, but in the sense that philosophers, artists and artists need to be alone to work.
  — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
• One of the books revealed that the philosopher Philodemus wrote an eight-book series.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 June 2026
• There's bits of Andreessen and David Sacks and some of those philosopher types.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 31 May 2025
• And philosophers of physics argue about this endlessly.
  — Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
• Thomas Sowell, the economist and philosopher, made this point to me about ten years ago.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
• This year marks the 300th anniversary of the great philosopher’s birth.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• That great philosopher with a guitar, Elvis, was quoted as saying truth is a lot like the sun.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2021