It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed citizen.
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
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.
There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
I'm an artist, not a philosopher.
At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.
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