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Do I need to read a lot of books - or even one?

Plato : Books can be your worst enemies

 

Contents

Knowing the things as products of actions

Whom are you talking to?

Talking to God

On writing

Writing creates forgetfulness and a tiresome company!

Intelligence needs knowledge of the circumstances

Writing as amusement

Teaching needs dialogue and congeniality of souls

Recapitulation

Socrates' prayer

To the First Chapter

Cf.  Rilke, Letter to a Young Poet | Kierkegaard, My work as an author
Emerson, Self-knowledge | Gibson - McRury, Discovering one's face | Emerson, We differ in art, not in wisdom