Searching Knowledge through Philosophy

It is a mess by itself, and it can make a mess out of your thinking. But fear not. The mess it makes the way you think can make you think at least clearly and discreetly, seeing some purpose in there being mess. Then from thereon gaining knowledge begins. The above discourse is one way of describing how philosophers of bygone years would introduce uninitiated to the world of philosophy. Perhaps in the way they teach, this is how teachers in our time would edify their students about philosophy-knowingly or unknowingly. I was one of those individuals who first had to grope in the platonic darkness before I got a glimpse of what philosophers describe as the light of knowledge-or so.