11.   He entered the New College in Florida, where he studied philosophy.

12.   He studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, with a focus on phenomenology.

13.   He was born in Versailles and briefly considered becoming a Dominican monk before studying philosophy at the Sorbonne.

14.   He then studied philosophy at Seton Hall University in South Orange, before attending the Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, N.J.

15.   He was born in Chicago, and studied philosophy at Loyola University.

16.   He was so obsessed with the game that he gave up studying philosophy at the University of Chicago to play it full time.

17.   He studied philosophy instead.

18.   Jones, a former Marine and former Episcopal priest, read his way into Orthodox Christianity by studying classical philosophy.

19.   Lasch began his career as a part-time police reporter in Lincoln, Neb., while studying philosophy at the University of Nebraska.

20.   Later, while teaching and studying Buddhist philosophy in London, he attended nightly screenings where he discovered the works of Yasujiro Ozu, Satyajit Ray and Andrei Tarkovsky.