A Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.
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If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
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