All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future TASK of the philosopher, which is to solve the PROBLEM of VALUE, to determine the TRUE hierarchy of values.

It is not meant that the ARTIST, in arriving at truth, MUST FOLLOW the way of the SCIENTIST, or, in stating it, the way of the PHILOSOPHER.

What we should in FACT do, is stop allowing PHILOSOPHERS to REFLECT 'on' things. The PHILOSOPHER creates, he doesn't reflect.

It's HARD for me to IMAGINE a PHILOSOPHER disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed CITIZEN.

Why is it the PHILOSOPHER who is EXPECTED to be EASIER and not some SCIENTIST who is EVEN more inaccessible?

We're in a post-conceptual ERA where it's really the artist's idea and VISION that are prized rather than the ABILITY to master the crafts that SUPPORT the work. TODAY, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

Dostoevsky is such a bad WRITER it is hard to take him seriously as a NOVELIST, THOUGH he is a WONDERFUL PHILOSOPHER.

A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a PHILOSOPHER. He will have IDEAS on politics, ECONOMICS, history, sports. This has saved India. The fact that the COMMON Indian is a thinker is VITAL.

It is one of the CHIEF SKILLS of the PHILOSOPHER not to occupy himself with QUESTIONS which do not CONCERN him.

To a PHILOSOPHER LIKE NIETZSCHE, the JEW is culpable not for rejecting CHRISTIANITY but for inventing it.

The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken LANGUAGE. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the NOVEL asks QUESTIONS.

You may be ABLE to read Bernard Shaw's PLAYS, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new PHILOSOPHER; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not CREATIVE, what is the POINT of this education?