Full Idea
I congratulate you, sir, because you have come to philosophy free of any taint of culture.
Gist of Idea
We should come to philosophy free from any taint of culture
Source
Epicurus (fragments/reports [c.289 BCE])
Book Reference
Epicurus: 'The Epicurus Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B. /Gerson,L. [Hackett 1994], p.81
A Reaction
[source: Athenaeus, 'Deipnosophists' 13 588b] No one nowadays thinks such an aspiration remotely possible, not least because the culture is embedded in your native language, but I find the idea very appealing.