"In studying a philosopher, the right attitude is nether 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. Contempt interferes with the first part of this process, and reverence with the second."
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Bertrand Russell, in A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book One, Ancient Philosophy, Part I, Chapter IV, Heraclitus, p. 39
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