Sentence examples for a philosophical man from inspiring English sources

Perfectly adapted to the climate-controlled world of first-class cabins and airport hotels in which he lives, Ryan is a philosophical man who loves flying above life's mess, with no attachments and only a nominal fixed abode.

Mr. Gerson, 36, is a philosophical man who studied theology in college, calls himself a born-again Christian and is conversant in the work of a wide array of political philosophers and poets.

He was a deeply religious, intellectual and philosophical man with untiring devotion to his beloved wife Noreen and his children Stanley J. Jr. and Noreen, all of whom survive him and will miss him dearly.

A big difference, however, is that Tatischeff is a chainsmoker, not a philosophical pipe man.

Brad Pitt plays a philosophical hit man cleaning up a mess in the wake of a clumsy robbery.

Socrates draws an extended parallel between two types of character, the philosophical man and the man of rhetoric, to show that it is better to be the philosophical type.

Hence, Aquinas started with assumptions based on divine revelation and went on to a philosophical explication of man and nature.

His Essay on the Human Soul (1771) had little success, but A Philosophical Essay on Man (1773) was translated into French and published in Amsterdam (1775 76).

By this time he had become something of a philosophical Grand Old Man, with volumes published in his honour, and a full-length critical study by John Foster in the prestigious Routledge "arguments of the philosophers" series.

Janáček makes a philosophical argument about man's place in nature, a meditation on the beauty of nature and how we interact with it.

Their love affair with robots, and their own metamorphosis into robotic avatars, stems from the album The Man-Machine, inspired by a philosophical motif of the "man-machine" dating back to the 18th Century and revived by continental philosophers like Deleuze and Guattari (Anti-Oedipus, published in 1972).