Which books made you feel smarter or more intelligent,in practical

The Phenomenology of Spirit.

>>9679734

How to Read a Book by Adler and Van Dorren
The Poetics and Rhetoric of Aristotle
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Moral Discourses of Epictetus
Cratylus, Symposium and Phaedrus by Plato

>>9679734
Stop promoting degeneracy.

>>9680156
>implying beauty is degenerate
>impying sexuality is degenerate
>implying celebrity is degenerate
>implying wealth is degenerate

>>9680167
Yes.

>>9680176
I am so sorry ;..;

It must suck to be none of those.

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>>9680182
noob

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>>9680407
>quoting a female author

>>9680428
LEL? you lost the meme war years ago

>>9680469
>U LOST THE MEMES WAR
>I HABE A BAGINA

>>9680469
>LEL? you lost the meme war years ago

Are you serious?

>>9679734
Smart books make you feel stupid. Stupid books make you feel smart.

>>9679781
>The Poetics and Rhetoric of Aristotle
Only acceptable answer in your list. Among others, Symposium? Really? Humans with 6 limbs that move with rotary motion is your idea of literature that imparts practical intelligence? Or was it was the Platonic love?

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>>9680771

Fiction? Dorian Gray
I was mentally talking in that voice and it essentially gave me the urge to think about more things

Non-fiction? A lot. The most recent two books I've been reading: The Grand Chessboard and On China have opened up a new paradigm of thought for me and are giving me a new lens to view the world with. In the same vein, reading (inbetween and on the lines) Heritage Foundation articles are fun. It's giving me the ability to think and talk about geo-strategic events with some authority.

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