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How to understand this sentence of Voltaire? Many books make us ignorant.
Voltaire famously said: The more books you read without thinking, the more you will feel that you understand. And the more you read and think, the more clearly you will see how little you know.

Reading clears the mind.

The ladder of reading

In the face of the new theory of the futility of reading, we should polish our eyes, arm our brains with knowledge, take the initiative to distinguish right from wrong, face the boundless sea of books, get rid of the bad and keep the bad, and put wings on our ideals.

If life is an interlocking chain, then reading will probably have a ladder.

The first step of this ladder is to read poetry in youth. It seems that our reading begins with reading poems. We not only read, but actually we are writing ourselves. Mr. Liang Shiqiu said: "Probably everyone has had the experience of being a poet. In the season of' complaining against the yellow and complaining about Fendi', it is also chilling to see flowers and sad to listen to cats. "

Followed by reading poetry, with the growth of age, the enthusiasm of youth has not all ebbed, so we read prose. Prose is emotional and needs sincere heart to experience induction. When prose loses its appeal, novels that record human tragicomedy are favored by us.

I have read many novels, and I have experienced changes in the world. It's not enough to just spin around in the same place. We need a metaphysical refinement and sublimation, and philosophy will come to us.

After reading philosophy, people become lively and thorough, but they should be immature and naive, too thorough, with some emptiness in their hearts and some loneliness in life, and always want to convert to something. At that time, they were busy and lonely and always wanted to convert to something. At that time, they scrambled to find religious books.

A practice of human feelings, an insight into the world, both refined and popular, regardless of depth.

Children like to drink sugar tea, while old people like bitter tea. There are probably steps to reading. It has been pointed out that reading Mr. Zhou Zuoren's plain and diluted articles needs to be paved with life experience.

Some people always read poetry. Some people only read essays that are too thick to melt. Some people just read novels.

It's just that some people keep going on the ladder of reading.