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> [“The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning’ (‘Truth, Power, Self’, 9). Foucault”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-gutting/the-main-interest-in-life-and-work-is-to-become-someone-else-that-you/)

[Gary Gutting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-gutting/)

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## More by Gary Gutting

> [“The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning’ (‘Truth, Power, Self’, 9). Foucault”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-gutting/the-main-interest-in-life-and-work-is-to-become-someone-else-that-you/)

[Gary Gutting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-gutting/)

> [Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-gutting/teaching-plato-in-palestine-shows-how-philosophical-thinking-can/)

[Gary Gutting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-gutting/)

> [Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-gutting/leisure-not-work-should-be-our-primary-goal/)

[Gary Gutting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-gutting/)

> [What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-gutting/what-is-an-intellectual-in-general-someone-seriously-devoted-to-what/)

[Gary Gutting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-gutting/)

> [Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-gutting/good-politicians-need-not-be-intellectuals-but-they-should-have/)

[Gary Gutting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-gutting/)

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