Becoming Quote by Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing…

— Moby

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

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

— Angela Davis

I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to spend my…

— L.A. Paul

In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice.…

— Allen W. Wood

To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in…

— Jerry Fodor

In many ways, the effort to study philosophy was my rebellion away from medicine. I'm the son of two Indian immigrant physicians, so the…

— Atul Gawande

I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many ways I…

— Hilary Kornblith

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

I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few…

— Jonathon Keats

My mother thought my inclinations would do well in Law, but I was too shy and deliberative - slowfooted - for that, so I…

— John Kleinig

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

— Timothy Leary