This reading was quite interesting...as are most of them. What was interesting to me what the fact that Schopenhauer suggested not to read. It's an interesting concept though, to his point of people losing their own point of view and ability to think for themselves without the influence of what they read. I'm not sure I would vouch for not reading, but I would agree that we are definitely influenced by the things we read and how we think. The same goes for the people we're around.
Something else that I thought about was his point to "it would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them." I'll be honest and say I'm not an avid reader, which is weird because I buy books all the time. I like to look at books and read through the beginning pages of them, but I life seems to get too busy that I loose track and interest until the available time rolls back around. I would like to read more though...soon...graduation is just around the corner.
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