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He need wear no distinctive robe nor display a tonsured head. He need pursue no special tradition, enter no monastic establishment, nor cut himself off from ordinary life. That he is a philosopher is not to be advertised by such outward signs. Yet if he feels a personal vocation to follow these customs, he is also free to do so. It is simply that there is no necessity in the general sense.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 3 : Independent Path > # 245