Weekly Quotes
18th March
My profession was: I was a professor of philosophy. This means: a civil servant, ein Denkbeamter. That's all I was. What do I do? I write essays which upset people.
My profession was: I was a professor of philosophy. This means: a civil servant, ein Denkbeamter. That's all I was. What do I do? I write essays which upset people.
"Paul K. Feyerabend. Last Interview" [1994], by Joachim Jung, in J. Preston - G. Munévar - D. Lamb, The Worst Enemy of Science?, New York - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. p.165.
The professors – serve masters who pay them and tell them what to do: they are not free minds in search of harmony and happiness for all, they are civil servants (Denkbeamte, to use a marvellous German word) and their mania for order is not the result of a balanced inquiry, or a closeness to humanity, it is a professional disease.
The professors – serve masters who pay them and tell them what to do: they are not free minds in search of harmony and happiness for all, they are civil servants (Denkbeamte, to use a marvellous German word) and their mania for order is not the result of a balanced inquiry, or a closeness to humanity, it is a professional disease.
Farewell to Reason. London – New York: Verso, 1987. p.315.