A Quote by Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!
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The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
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.
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.
A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.
I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.
As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.
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