Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

If you think you are the philosopher then I am the philosophy.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.