Academia Quote by Anton Chekhov

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

— Karl Jaspers

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

— Henry David Thoreau

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life!”

— Anton Chekhov

I drifted into a career in academic philosophy because I couldn't see anything outside the academy that looked to be anything other than drudgery.…

— Julian Young

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

— Ray Bradbury

A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy…

— John Grier Hibben

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

— Jacques Derrida

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell