Use philosophy in a sentence
Sentences starting with philosophy
- Philosophy was all very well, and he had courageously given his allegiance to it, or a formula of it, a moment before; but there was something deeper and rarer still in the little man's soul. [11]
- Philosophy deserted him then; he fell back on the primary emotions of mankind. [11]
- Philosophy is no longer against religion, it is with it. [9]
- Philosophy and poetry came--to me before I knew their names. [6]
- Philosophy of History, 87. [6]
Sentences ending with philosophy
- Now, in his youth, Caracalla went through his courses of philosophy. [10]
- I will tell you all about that, and you will wonder that he has carried on as well as he has, with his vanity and his philosophy. [11]
- Second, he spoke with all the weight of the then accepted science and philosophy. [9]
- What we represented was valuable energy misdirected and misplaced, and in a reorganized community he would not abolish us, but transform us: transform, at least, the individuals of our type, who were the builders gone wrong under the influence of an outworn philosophy. [9]
- But the story was meant to be readable for those who did not care for its underlying philosophy. [6]
- His letter to Twichell is as individual as it is sound in philosophy. [5]
- It is the true philosophy. [5]
- I was unable to meet this argument, and the result was that when I was away from her I too began to "thrash around" among the books in a vain search for a radical with a convincing and satisfying philosophy. [9]
- But he's gone to heaven, and 'tis vain crying for last year's breath," he added, with proud philosophy. [11]
- The name of Thomas Sydenham is as distinguished in the history of medicine as that of John Locke in philosophy. [3]
Short sentences using philosophy
- His philosophy, too, was environmental. [9]
- Darwin's Philosophy of Language,' 1873. [1]
- His philosophy sustained him. [5]
- But Ralph's philosophy easily triumphed. [9]
- What is the Boston philosophy? [4]
Sentences containing philosophy two or more times
- You never can tell where they will explode, philosophy or no philosophy. [11]
- She had some real philosophy of life learned in a hard school; and it was infinitely better founded than the smattering of conventional philosophy got by Jean Jacques from his compendium picked up on the quay at Quebec. [11]
- Ancient Greek philosophy called this decree, this meaning of life, the Logos, and the Nicene Creed is a confession of faith in that philosophy. [9]
More example sentences with the word philosophy in them
- He finds good writing and sound philosophy, passages of great force and beauty of expression, marred by obscurity, under assumptions and faults of style. [6]
- In those two words was told the philosophy of her life. [9]
- Soul-satisfying philosophy, to which Honora was to cling for many years of life. [9]
- A time came when the occurrence appeared to me in the light of prescience, but that was when I began to understand that all ideas, all reason and philosophy, are the result of outer impression. [11]
- It is only when one has withdrawn from the more personal influence of the emotions that one's philosophy may be trusted. [11]
- In his philosophy, What Is Man?, and now and again in his other writings, we find Mark Twain giving small credit to the human mind as an originator of ideas. [5]
- My favorite studies were Natural Philosophy, Logic, and Moral Science. [5]
- Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? [6]
- In David it was the outcome of his faith, in Nahoum it was the outcome of his philosophy, a simple, fearless fatalism. [11]
- In the opening verses of this Gospel the Incarnation is explained, not by a virgin birth, but in a manner acceptable to the educated and spiritually-minded, in terms of the philosophy of the day. [9]
- She even urged upon them that philosophy of their own, which said "Malaish" to all things-- the "It is no matter," of the fated Hamlet. [11]
- They sighed, turned up their eyes, retailed philosophy, such as it was," etc. [5]
- In the letter to Howells which follows we get another glimpse of Mark Twain's philosophy of man, the irresponsible machine. [5]
- If they listened to him talk philosophy, encouraged him to do it, and told him they liked it, when the bargain was being made, the chances are the security is inadequate. [11]
- It is not to give the possessor vegetables or fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy and the higher virtues, hope deferred and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation and sometimes to alienation. [4]
- Gather philosophy from this: you may with impunity buy anything from a knave and fool except his nuptial bed. [11]
- So absorbed were they in the pursuit of wealth, of distraction, so satisfied with the current philosophy, so intent on surrounding themselves with beautiful things and thus shutting out the sterner view, that they had grown heedless of the divine message. [9]
- The curriculum in these was that in colleges generally,--the classics, the higher mathematics, science, philosophy, the modern languages, and in some instances a certain technical instruction, which was being tried in some Northern colleges. [4]
- Unlike the old theology woven of myths and a fanciful philosophy of the decadent period of Greece, natural theology was founded on science itself, and scientists were among those who sought to develop it. [9]
- To go with them, not to care, to accept Jack's idle, good-natured, easy philosophy of life and conduct, would not that have insured a peaceful life? [4]
- You know that the tendency of the school of philosophy to which I belong insists, above all, on a suspension of judgment; but if there is one thing which may be asserted with any dogmatic certainty--" But Melissa would hear no more. [10]
- In return, as the stars wheeled on, and the moon stole to the zenith, majestic and slow, Ebn Ezra offered to his troubled friend only the philosophy of the predestinarian, mingled with the calm of the stoic. [11]
- I took up the second book, that on the philosophy of the organism, to read in its preface that a much-to-be-honoured British nobleman had established a foundation of lectures in a Scotch University for forwarding the study of a Natural Theology. [9]
- He held out the second book on the philosophy of the organism. [9]
- If you want the real philosophy of it, I will give it to you. [6]
- Logic, philosophy are the props of life, but still you must obey the impulse of the soul--oh, absolutely! [11]
- The founder of the new inductive philosophy had only been dead two years when the treatise on the Circulation, the first-fruit of the Restoration of Science, was given to the world. [3]
- Behind him, in the Manor Cartier, the man who had had no luck and much philosophy, snored on till morning in unconscious content. [11]
- Instinctively he felt the little book of philosophy which he always carried now in his breast-pocket, as a pietist would finger his beads in moments of fear or anxiety. [11]
- Skilfully, always within the limits of their intelligence, he outlined to his hearers his philosophy and proclaimed it as that of the world's oppressed. [9]
- He sat on the hill above his lime-kilns, reading the little hand-book of philosophy which had played so big a part in his life. [11]
- A poet, like the goose, sails without visible landmarks to unexplored regions of truth, which philosophy has yet to lay down on its atlas. [6]
- He first got the glimmer of it, then the glimmer grew to a glow, and the glow to a great red light, in which his brain became drunk, and all his philosophy was burned up like wood-shavings in a fiery furnace. [11]
- It got into the eyes and senses of Jean Jacques, in a way which had nothing to do with the philosophy of Descartes, or Kant, or Aristotle, or Hegel. [11]
- Men can face that sort of thing with a kind of philosophy, not because men are better or wiser, but because it really means less to them. [11]
- But very near that precipitous border line there is a charmed region where, if the statelier growths of philosophy die out and disappear, the flowers of poetry next the very edge of the chasm have a peculiar and mysterious beauty. [6]
- He heard more than once the bells of memory ringing at the touch of the invisible hand of Destiny which accepts no philosophy save its own. [11]
- Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged. [7]
- It talked a strange sort of philosophy in the language of poetry. [6]
- It was something spiritual and unmaterial, something, maybe, which had to do with the philosophy he had preached, thought and practised over long years. [11]
- Of the crowd some were curious, some stoical; some wept, some essayed philosophy. [11]
- However the lines social and political may be drawn, we have to keep in mind that nothing in one class can be foreign to any other, and that practically one philosophy underlies all the movements of an age. [4]
- I have long since learned that the perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy, is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambition to our capacities; we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. [5]
- Your very reason shows that it was sane, well founded in the philosophy of the heart. [11]
- Pierre, who knew she was very stupid, sometimes attended, with a strange feeling of perplexity and fear, her evenings and dinner parties, where politics, poetry, and philosophy were discussed. [2]
- Politics, literature, arts, sciences, universal brotherhood and sisterhood, nothing was omitted; neither the poetry of Tennyson, nor the philosophy of Margaret Fuller; neither the virtues of association, nor of unbolted wheat. [4]
- The French, he says, have been celebrated chiefly for the skill of their chefs and their vaudeville actors, while in the disturbed 'speculum mundi' Americans have appeared as a collection of money grabbers whose philosophy is the dollar. [9]
- Their philosophy, their religion, whether heathen or human, was inborn. [11]
- Yet he, also, recognised in philosophy, first of all, the bond which unites the widely sundered acquisitions of the intellect, the vital breath which pervades them, the touchstone which proves each true or false. [10]
- Even though the prevailing ethics may teach that every man's highest duty is to himself, we cannot escape community of sympathy and destiny in this cold-blooded philosophy. [4]
- Society, literature, art, politics, in any given age are what the prevailing system of philosophy makes them. [4]
- Where is the philosophy, where is the consistency, where is the charity, in conduct like this? [5]
- It isn't a philosophy, it is a fact. [5]
- As for his philosophy, his principles, moral, political, or social, we repeat that he seems to have none whatever. [6]
- Was Jean Jacques' philosophy, after all, to be a real concrete asset of his life sooner or later? [11]
- The book of philosophy was underlined and interlined on every page, and every margin had comment which showed a mind of the most singular simplicity, searching wisdom, and hopeless confusion, all in one. [11]
- In short, her philosophy was that of the modern, orthodox American, tinged by a somewhat commercialized Sunday school tradition of an earlier day, and highly approved by the censors of the movies. [9]
- We need a philosophy that shall tell us why it is one or the other, and fix the responsibility where it belongs. [4]
- But the prevailing philosophy of that day among the students was naturalism. [9]
- He had no philosophy of life. [4]
- This is the philosophy of it. [6]
- That much his philosophy had done for him. [11]
- There is one philosophy for the lamb, and another for the wolf. [9]
- They lend a peculiar charm to his poems, but it is not worth while to try to construct a philosophy out of them. [6]
- But Emerson, incubating over deeper matters than were dreamt of in the established philosophy of elegant letters, seems to have given no sign of the power that was fashioning itself for leadership in a new time. [6]
- This young fellow ought to have talked philosophy, I know perfectly well; but he didn't,--he made jokes. [6]
- Shall we learn other things than those that have hitherto been contained in our philosophy? [9]
- His mother died,--the only friend he had,-- Some tears escaped, but his philosophy Couched like a cat, sat watching close behind And throttled all his passion. [6]
- I doubt if on your side of town the, best books, the real fundamental and abstruse books, are so read and discussed, or the philosophy of life is so seriously considered, as in certain little circles of what you call the working-classes. [4]
- Two-thirds of 'em on religion, or religious philosophy. [9]
- Perhaps it's part of the philosophy of dreams that one never does. [12]
- Our own philosophy of the correlation of forces found no sort of favor at that elevation, and we went to sleep leaving the principle of fire in the apostolic category of "any other creature. [4]
- That's the philosophy of the bunco business; country people from the same neighborhood are sure to run up against each other the first time they come to New York. [8]
- In the face of such a philosophy as his I was mute. [9]
- In the language of philosophy, it is written from a subjective, not an objective, point of view. [6]
- What a system of philosophy he might evolve out of his consciousness! [4]
- Perhaps the philosophy of its attractiveness lies deeper than its 'dolce far niente' existence. [4]
- The Positive Philosophy of Comte has only given expression to the observing and computing mind of the nineteenth century. [3]
- In some recently-published observations by Phelps upon the philosophy of reading is laid down this definition: "If I understand the necessity or use of reading, it is to reproduce again what has been said or proclaimed before. [4]
- The Church had nothing now to fear from them, and their philosophy and learning would still and always be valuable in the mental training of her priests. [10]
- His metaphysics is not the sport of philosophy, religion, or Science; rather it is the pith and finale of them all. [5]
- If I have not lost my mind I have accurately conveyed those two Vesuvian irruptions of philosophy. [5]
- Yet it must not be thought for a moment,--it cannot be supposed,--that he was insensible because he looked upon himself with the coolness of an enforced philosophy. [6]
- The young find no solace or recompense in the philosophy of those who regard life as a thing greatly over-estimated. [11]
- Only for a night and a day did the rebellion lack both a leader and a philosophy. [9]
- Something doing always, never still, except when you will find him by the road-side, or in a tavern with all the people round him, talking, jesting, and he himself going into a trance with his book of philosophy. [11]
- We had a national philosophy that measured prosperity in dollars and cents, included in this measurement the profits of liquor dealers who were responsible for most of our idiots. [9]
- To live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy now. [2]
- I have not much confidence in an ornamental top-dressing of philosophy, theology, and classic learning upon the foundation of an unformed and unstable mental and moral condition. [4]
- I had seen Mr. Scherer attacked, Mr. Gorse attacked, and Mr. Watling: I had all along realized, vaguely, that my turn would come, and I thought myself to have acquired a compensating philosophy. [9]
- Also, as M. Mornay had said, his philosophy was now in his bones and marrow rather than in his words. [11]
- His nature was more and more spiritualized, till in the esoteric philosophy of the time of the Rameses he is compared to the All filling and All guiding intelligence. [10]
- To be humbled meant, in Mr. Hopper's philosophy, to lose one's money. [9]
- Michael McGrath, was making from the platform an eloquent plea for order and peace, promising a Committee of Arbitration and thinking about soldiers, the leader and the philosophy were landing in Hampton. [9]
- Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry were, in their philosophy, precisely the same. [7]
- They've nothing to live for but life, and it isn't good enough, you see, for--for--" Joe paused to find out where his philosophy was taking him. [11]
- Yes, I do like Henderson, but I can't give up my philosophy of life for the sake of one good fellow. [4]
- And now her letter, despite his resistance, had made its appeal, so genuinely human was it, so honest, although it expressed a philosophy he abhorred. [9]
- In books of law, theology, politics, medicine, science, travel, adventure, biography, philosophy, and fiction there may be passages that possess, or the whole contents may possess, that quality which comes within our meaning of literature. [4]
- Was He, as John had written, the First Born of the Universe, the Word Incarnate of a system that defied time and space, the Logos of an outworn philosophy? [9]
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