“I love reading but humanity’s wisest people often say wisdom cannot be found in books. How then can you and I become kinder and wiser?”, says George Thompson. Cioran thought the same way himself. When a young insomniac man, he was once reading Kierkegaard and the gardener who worked for his sister, Virginia, said to him: “Young man, why do you read from morning to night? Because I need to”, he replied. “It’ very important to me.” And then the old man, who was poor and illiterate, replied: “The truth, young man, you ain’t gonna find it in them books.” Reminiscing that episode decades later, Cioran would come to the conclusion that the gardener was right.
How you can become wiser (without reading)
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