Schopenhauer said that it is too little to read good books and too little to read bad books. So the key is to read good books. It's no good reading too many bad books. Schopenhauer also said that reading is good for us only when our thoughts are exhausted. Personally, I think that "opening books is beneficial" is actually a very wrong idea. If we read too many bad books, our minds will be confused. We ordinary people's judgment is not very strong, and if we read too many bad books, we will be at a loss ...

To quote a passage from Mr. Wei Qichang, the translator of Schopenhauer's works:

Among many western philosophers, Schopenhauer's philosophical works are unique with unusually clear words. It is easier for us to understand why Schopenhauer's philosophy is welcomed by literary and artistic people who have their own unique ideas, because Schopenhauer's revelation of human feelings and physics is extremely profound; What its refined and accurate words carry is simply a rich and natural miniature of nature. Faced with the crystal clear essence of human thought in Schopenhauer's works, people who have a heart can naturally produce * * * immediately. But we can't forget that everyone first reacts to Schopenhauer's works according to their own quality and ability. It is self-contradictory to expect Schopenhauer's profound thoughts to be answered at once, because everyone can easily understand it, so what else is relatively "profound"? Unlike a large number of fake "philosophers" and those who pretend to be profound with words, Schopenhauer's works are simple and profound, in contrast to the complicated shallowness of those swindlers.

conclusion: read a good book, read a good book and read a good book.

I basically only read Schopenhauer's works. I am reading Schopenhauer's On Morality and Freedom and Schopenhauer's Essays on Thought. I have read Schopenhauer's Wisdom of Life before, so I suggest reading The World as Representation and Will again.

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