What Influenced You the Most Over the Course of Your Intellectual Journey?

i went to e what was d a new university in 19 92. Politechnics, as they were then called, and ithe buquet became universities. And the lectures there, they all impressed me because they were by their patience,. You know, there their depth of understanding, their modesty, their dedication. None of them were careerists, none of them, i think, you know, they were philosophers. They were people who loved philosophy and thought teaching philosophy for very little money was the most valuable thing we could do. That was inspiring. It dawned on me that I could spend the rest of my life just kind of reading niture and filtering reality in my experiences through