Own & read all four horsemen back in the day.
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Going to start, Krishna Dvaipayana’s ‘Bhagavad Gita’
and Tacitus’ ‘Germania’, but will start with these two
short reads first… as a warm-up. 
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11 Best Philosophical Books to Expand Your Mind in 2022
developgoodhabits.com/philosophical-books/ I’ve got my eye on 3.
- Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plato
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
- Start With Why by Simon Sinek
- The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M Pirsig
ferlingetti
‘Little Boy’
i saw this guy do a debate back in 07.
Reading this within covers partially hiding the substance of the ‘modern soul’
theotherjournal.com/2013/07/08/ … n-milbank/
read abstractly , abstracting from.the abstract
The Heart is a lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
( in progress.may have to plan for a long read to deal with the complexity; otherwise may just skim time to time.
Skimming ‘Putting the Rabbit in the Hat’
Brian Cox, touching nerves but can not buy it. On a steep decline. Want to lift it but recent indulagance in jarmia freezes me.
So full of characterizations of admirable actors.
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Reading up on ancient-Europe onwards, to current climes.
Would you be so kind and tell something more about it?
Sorry for interruption for trying to post new topic , it was unsuccessful so, I am replacing current topic on books.
…genealogy, haplogroups, what constitutes/makes a European a European, the origins and admixture of Europeans, etc.
sounds interesting.
Meanwhile up and hangin’ by a silk tossed thread:
‘How to Know Hid’
Translated with commentary by:
Swami Prabbhavananda and Cristopher Isherwood
When the mind becomes clear, information is better understood/absorbed… all starts to make sense, but it is not for all to make sense of.
Need read ‘ sense and sensibility’ , meno : I thought it to be of philosophy, still will read it time willing
Outliers
Malcom gladwell
“Covid-19: The Great Reset” (Klaus Schwab). Original version.
What books I’d like to re-read
1The idiot -Dostoevsky
2 Magic Mountain T Mann
3 ? A thousand others
Peking Story, David Kidd
-amazing
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
By: Massimo Pigliucci
“Stoicism taught me that regret is about things we can no longer change and the right attitude is to learn from our experiences, not dwell on decisions that we are not in a position to alter.”
We need to resist the impulse to react immediately and instinctively to potentially problematic situations. Instead, we must pause, take a deep breath, perhaps go for a walk around the block, and only then consider the issue as dispassionately as possible.”
“One of the first lessons from Stoicism, then, is to focus our attention and efforts where we have the most power and then let the universe run as it will. This will save us both a lot of energy and a lot of worry.”
all gems