PHILOSOPHICAL in a Sentence

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118 example sentences for PHILOSOPHICAL, such as:

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. The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.
5. His philosophical writings are imbued with religious belief.

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 Meanings and Examples of PHILOSOPHICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
philosophical
 a.  of or relating to philosophy or philosophers
 a.  characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment
Classic Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
1  In rather a too philosophical and connected a strain, perhaps, I have given an account of the conclusions I had come to concerning them in my early years.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  My aunt concluded this philosophical summary, by fixing her eyes with a kind of triumph on Agnes, whose colour was gradually returning.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
3  With him there was a well-known professor of philosophy, who had come from Harkov expressly to clear up a difference that had arisen between them on a very important philosophical question.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
4  "No; since we are talking, explain it to me from the philosophical point of view," said Levin.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
5  And Sergey Ivanovitch carried the subject into the regions of philosophical history where Konstantin Levin could not follow him, and showed him all the incorrectness of his view.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
6  Darya Alexandrovna in her intimate, philosophical talks with her sister, her mother, and her friends very often astonished them by the freedom of her views in regard to religion.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 8
7  To Carol was given a sudden great philosophical understanding, an explanation of half the cautious reforms in history.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
9  One could not stand and watch very long without becoming philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog squeal of the universe.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  They were a sun-tanned, philosophical lot, who sometimes shot reflectively at the blue pickets.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  The philosophical tall soldier measured a sandwich of cracker and pork and swallowed it in a nonchalant manner.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  There is the religious mine, the philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
13  We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical excavation.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
14  It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and from Minerva turns to Pallas.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
15  By-and-by, when you've got a name, you can afford to digress, and have philosophical and metaphysical people in your novels, said Amy, who took a strictly practical view of the subject.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.
2  The philosophical problems of chance and of free will are closely related.
3  The concept that destiny is predetermined is a religious dogma and a philosophical delusion.
4  His philosophical writings are imbued with religious belief.
5  Some old people are philosophical about death.
6  The debate was getting too philosophical for me.
7  The content of philosophical works is cerebral in nature and requires much thought.
8  The young Plato was drawn to the Agora to hear the philosophical discourse of Socrates and his followers.
9  An aphorism differs from an adage in that it is more philosophical or scientific.
10  After all, people with a naturalistic worldview make philosophical inferences about the world supposedly based on the scientific evidence.
11  Witiout philosopher man cannot know what he makes ;without religion he cannot know why.
12  The philosopher speculated about time and space.
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.