#philosophy #mind >The reason, I suppose, why uneducated people have fallen into this darkest of all errors is because they are incapable of looking far enough back into the past; this is what makes them fail to realize that the people who first created civilization were the **philosophers**. ~ [[Cicero]] >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. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] >The definition is therefore amended: the **philosopher** is a man who loves the “vision of [[Truth]].” ~[[Bertrand Russell]] [[Artistotle]] says > And that all these attributes belong most of all to the **philosopher** is manifest. He, therefore, is the dearest to the gods. And he who is that will presumably be also the happiest; so that in this way too the **philosopher** will more than any other be happy. i.e. the pursuit of [[Philosophy]] is the activity bringing the most [[Will to power]]. Though, *specialization is in-human*. >Be a philosopher, but amidst your philosophy, be a man ~ [[Hume]]