Think for yourself

"Almost all important philosophers were book collectors. For example: Plato, who was a rich man, bought rare philosophical texts, sometimes even paying huge sums of money Aristotle himself owned an entire library that he gifted to his student Theophrastus after his death, but the collection of books is numbered Only the outward appearance of the philosophical synthesis.Philosophers are "gatherers of ideas." Even reading, this ancient activity of philosophers, is a form of collecting. Even today, in the German language, one can talk about (weinlese) picking and gathering grapes, and one of these types of picking or gathering is represented by reading a book. The reader wanders through the lines and pages, as is the case in wandering through a vineyard, and during his wandering he collects mental and spiritual fruits from here and there."