Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.

The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.