Quotes from Gary Gutting

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the "life of the mind": thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning' ('Truth, Power, Self', 9). Foucault

Now he finds a way to embrace truth, not as a body of theoretical knowledge, but as a way of living: not an epistemology, but an ethics, of truth.

Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal.