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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.