What is needed is a philosophy that does not just comment from the outside, but participates in the process of science itself. There must not be any boundary line between science and philosophy. Nor should one be content with an increase in efficiency, truth content, empirical content, or what have you. All these things count little when compared with a happy and well-rounded life. We need a philosophy that gives man the power and the motivation to make science more civilized rather than permitting a superefficient, supertrue, but otherwise barbaric science to debase man. Such a philosophy must show and examine all the consequences of a particular form of life including those which cannot be presented in words. Thus there must not be any boundary between philosophy and the rest of human life either.

(Paul Feyerabend, “Let’s Make More Movies,” chap. 13 in The Owl of Minerva: Philosophers on Philosophy, ed. Charles J. Bontempo and S. Jack Odell [New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975], 201-10, at 208-9)

Note from KBJ: I’ve been mining this book for quotations for almost half a year. I hope you enjoyed them. Several of the essays in the book are asinine. Sometimes I think there is nothing that all “philosophers” have in common, except the name. In some cases, I don’t have the foggiest idea what some “philosopher” is saying. What a discipline!