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The modern philosopher cannot fail to be a most paradoxical gentleman. He works as actively and apparently as ambitiously as other men, relaxes with entertainment or with the arts, but withal keeps his innermost self aloof and detached from the scenes and agitations around him.

-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 5 : The Philosopher > # 109