“A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.”
“There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.”
“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
“Be a philosopher, but amid all your philosophy be still a man.”