![]() ![]() ![]() Mortimer Adler believed that reading is a conversation between you and the author. These are the questions that Schopenhauer attempts to address. ![]() What does it mean to read? Is reading the path to acquiring wisdom? If not, why? No matter what problem we face, odds are someone has faced it before and thoughtfully written about it. When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. So it makes sense to start with the people that came before us. Seneca, writing on the same subject, said, “Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides.” In fact, most books are just new ways of seeing old ideas. “A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it.” ![]() In The Prince, Machiavelli offered the following advice: One of the most timeless and beautiful meditations on reading comes from the 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860).įor me, reading has always been about our tagline: Mastering the best of what other people have already figured out. ![]()
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