One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
I'm an artist, not a philosopher.