Historically, the gymnasium was used for exercise, communal bathing, and scholarly and philosophical pursuits.

He became a merchant after his marriage to Aloma, and he gives his son an education based on religious and philosophical pursuits.

Lévinas's thesis "ethics as first philosophy", then, means that the traditional philosophical pursuit of knowledge is secondary to a basic ethical duty to the other.

He was also involved in religious and philosophical pursuits.

The last twenty years of his life were devoted chiefly to philosophical and literary pursuits.

Caerellia was a wealthy friend of Cicero, distinguished for her love of philosophical pursuits.

He opted for voluntary retirement from the job to focus on his spiritual and philosophical pursuits.

He found some time to return to his earlier philosophical pursuits, including popularised presentations of the thoughts expressed in earlier writings.

The philosophical pursuit soon brought Lennstrand to analytically peer at his own conviction in religious faith, and he came out as an open atheist in 1886.

In Pondicherry, Aurobindo completely dedicated himself to his spiritual and philosophical pursuits.