PHILOSOPHY in a Sentence
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99 example sentences for PHILOSOPHY, such as:
1. the function of real philosophy.
2. philosophy herself is promoted to religion.
3. As one makes one's philosophy, so one lies on it.
4. This question comes into the domain of philosophy.
5. Politics and philosophy were his lifelong passions.
2. philosophy herself is promoted to religion.
3. As one makes one's philosophy, so one lies on it.
4. This question comes into the domain of philosophy.
5. Politics and philosophy were his lifelong passions.
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Meanings and Examples of PHILOSOPHY
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philosophy
n. a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
n. the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
Classic Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1 During their voyage they reasoned a good deal on the philosophy of poor Pangloss.
2 As one makes one's philosophy, so one lies on it.
3 We are at the top; let us have a superior philosophy.
4 In truth, Bishop, I tell you that I have a philosophy of my own, and I have my philosophers.
5 This philosophy has been extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers.
6 In our day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its antechamber.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
7 There has come into fashion a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing facts and all gloomy questions.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
8 There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
9 There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
10 The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds God.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
11 We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their philosophy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
12 In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all end in the monosyllable, No.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
13 the function of real philosophy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
14 philosophy herself is promoted to religion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
15 By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, Combeferre represented its philosophy.
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
2 Tough--minded optimists approach problems with a can-do philosophy and emerge stronger from tragedies.
3 We need to challenge some of the basic assumptions of western philosophy.
4 His philosophy is about becoming aware of oneself as an autonomous individual.
5 Apart from criminal investigation techniques, students learn forensic medicine, philosophy and logic.
6 Wisdom appears in contradiction to itself, which is a trick life plays on philosophy of life.
7 Augustine was later to combine elements of this philosophy with the teachings of Christianity.
8 Politics and philosophy were his lifelong passions.
9 This question comes into the domain of philosophy.
10 His tutor encouraged him to read widely in philosophy.
11 From his youth Nobel had taken a serious interest in literature and philosophy.
12 She carries around abstruse works of philosophy, not because she understands them but because she wants her friends to think she does.
13 Mikhail Gorbachev was the rising star of the Politburo, she, a politically aware consort with a doctorate of her own in Marxist philosophy.
14 In philosophy, systems theory and the sciences, emergence refers to the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.
15 The sense of freedom in nudity may remain by the philosophy and practice of naturism.