• One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

    Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel: One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
    "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.