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**Read only books you don’t understand** A great philosopher is someone who has decided to modify a set of concepts in order to face the question and not extinguish it immediately. Many philosophers are firemen: there is a fire, they rush into it in order to extinguish it. In philosophy, I tell my students, if you read a book that you understand well, drop it. You could have written that book. If you read a book you don’t understand but you guess that something is there, keep it open. Read only books you don’t understand. And after some time, you will at least understand what it is you don’t understand and why you don’t understand it. And then you will start to philosophize. — Jean-Luc Marion