Sentence examples for favourite philosopher from inspiring English sources

Blue Labour's favourite philosopher is Aristotle.

Mr Bush has called Jesus his favourite philosopher.

George Bush named Christ his favourite philosopher and started cabinet meetings with a prayer.

When asked who his favourite philosopher was, George W Bush famously answered "Jesus Christ".

When he writes about his favourite philosopher, the Spanish aphorist Santayana, his own style becomes elegant and precise.

Many were queasy when George Bush cheesily described Jesus as his favourite philosopher, but at least he knew his market.

When he revealed that he had terminal cancer, Sacks quoted one of his favourite philosophers, David Hume.

Having taken inspiration from David Hume, one of his favourite philosophers, Professor Sacks said he felt "intensely alive" and described his life as "an enormous privilege and adventure".

Jones explains that a famous quote from one of his favourite philosophers, the Danish intellect Søren Kierkegaard, was used in that film's marketing materials: "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards".

For example, in an early scene in The Guard, written and directed by McDonagh's brother John Michael, three murderous drug dealers motoring around the Irish countryside at night discuss their favourite philosophers: Nietzsche; Schopenhauer; Bertrand Russell.

Mr Bush, a born-again Methodist, is more a pillar in the nave.The president claims that Jesus Christ is his favourite political philosopher.