philosophize

Rapid-fire pictures of advertisements cause one person to philosophize on the mysteries of life, saying “All of this will never make sense.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

These bit players work, whisper, chatter, laugh, philosophize, run, hide, weep, lament and survive, sometimes as an undifferentiated human blur and sometimes with great individual vividness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

After Hal and Josie’s meet-cute, they see sights blandly, philosophize blandly, blandly tiptoe around the notion of romance, and criticize each other — yes, blandly, but with an occasional touch of “salty” language.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

His writing, she added, made people “free to philosophize in a way that, to paraphrase Mills’ first intellectual hero Marx, seeks not merely to describe the world, but to transform it.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021

He did not philosophize about the law or his responsibilities, but Tom noticed that he always maintained the same manner, no matter whether the prisoners were black or white or Mexican.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

A character philosophizes on the dizzying pace of change in the late 19th century: “We’ve no say as to the pace of modernity’s advance. I myself am merely its vessel, a humble foot soldier …”

From Salon ● May 31, 2019

“America,” Wednesday philosophizes from the passenger seat, “is the only country in the world that wonders what it is.”

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2017

“We that are young shall never see so much,” Edgar philosophizes as the play comes to a close, its devastation complete.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2011

In his new one-man show, he amiably philosophizes about the surprising types of enlightenment that disease can offer you.

From Washington Post

He philosophizes about my kind of happiness and his kind of happiness!

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various

Unafraid of melodrama and camp, the play raged and philosophized with operatic wit and pathos.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

"To be a ketchup enthusiast and say tomatoes are trash would be like saying you like peanut butter but hate peanuts," yet another user philosophized.

From Fox News ● Mar. 21, 2022

Poland President Andrzej Duda said he was humbled by the virus and philosophized about global recovery.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

Internet-connected photography, he philosophized, necessitated a “a reinvention of the camera.”

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2017

Samuel may have thought and played and philosophized about death, but he did not really believe in it.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Right before his 19th birthday, Rosenzweig wrote in his diary: “You believe you are philosophizing but you are only writing your own biography.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

He soon found out that there are millions of people in this country who are not impressed with his adolescent philosophizing.

From Salon ● May 21, 2025

A few wisps of plot materialize in between sips of wine and dollops of philosophizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

What stands out is his lack of philosophizing or waxing poetic.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2023

Gilbert’s On the Magnet takes us into a different world; indeed, he claims to be engaged in a new type of philosophizing.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton