 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
[ What is the right attitude to have in studying a philosopher? ]
The right attitude is neither reverence nor contempt, but first a kind of hypothetical sympathy, until it is possible to know what it feels like to believe in his theories, and only then, a revival of the critical attitude, which should resemble, as far as possible, the state of mind of a person abandoning opinions which he has hitherto held.
Source: Bertrand Russell: A History of Western Philosophy, 1945, chapter IV: Heraclitus, p.58
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