I'm looking for a book which just tells me a bunch of stuff that I'd never thought of before, which may be difficult for me to grasp. I'm not talking about just random stuff, but concepts which actually take understanding to master, which you can't just say the word of to sound smart when you don't actually know what it means. I want to find a book that is just filled with wonderful ideas which will actually make you have to think and understand.
If you're highschool/college age, Plato's Republic.
But if you read it without many supplemental books or a teacher/professor your won't get much from it.
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I was thinking about just getting plato's complete work, the one volume book. I think that has some stuff in it to help you understand, right?
I found the The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing interesting.
Kants Critique of pure reason