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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

4520	I don't want to persuade anyone to be a philosopher; they should be rare plants [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: I do not wish to persuade anyone to philosophy: it is inevitable, it perhaps also desirable, that the philosopher should be a rare plant.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §420)
	A reaction: My immediate reaction is disagreement, but 'what if everybody' became a philosopher. The fear is that philosophy paralyses action, but it need not. Good philosophy is time-consuming. History would come to an end. The excitement of medieval history!