It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.