By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.