Comments on: Read Old Books to Think Great Thoughts

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:29:04 +0000

Some very nice old authors who have enriched my life are listed below. My sincere apologies for leaving out many excellent writers whom I have not read:

Classical Literature
Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Plutarch

More Recent Literature
Shakespeare, Goethe, Dickens, Twain, Kipling

Philosophy
Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Thoreau, Emerson, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein

Old Mathematical Classics:
Euclid, Archimedes, Newton, Gauss, Riemann

By: Veda

Veda — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:43:22 +0000

Some of the Books to be read

Aesoph’s Fables.
Proverbs – religious or secular
Panchtantra – Animal Moral Stories – Indian

By: zwitdh

zwitdh — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:37:36 +0000

Thanks alot for the website. It;s really good .

By: S Sundaram

S Sundaram — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:29:17 +0000

One of the books that I always enjoy reading is “The Prophet” by Khaleel Gibran.

Why don’t you start with this one.

By: Joelle

Joelle — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:58:52 +0000

I have read most of the books and authors mentioned in this forum so far. I started reading them when I was very ill and bed-ridden off and on for several years. I felt that I had all this time and wanted to put it to good use and, believe me, TV gets very boring very quickly when it is your only entertainment. I went to UCLA and got copies of the syllabus for all the literature and philosophy classes, then expanded that list as I read. The reading I did during that time opened my eyes and changed my life in more ways than I could ever begin to adequately describe. If more people read even a fraction of these books, the world would be a very different place indeed.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:08:03 +0000

Since I am a native Spanish speaker, I’ll recommend the following authors:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Ernesto Sabato
- Julio Cortazar

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:57:36 +0000

I may also recommend a couple of books from Peter Watson: “Ideas” and “The Modern Mind”, they are both compilations of Human Mind achievements. “Ideas” starts from the development of writing…

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:00:36 +0000

I would recommend Don Quixote as an excellent read. Also anything by James Joyce or Jerome K. Jerome would be well worth reading.

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:02:28 +0000

if you don’t have time to read why not listen to audio books , a great site is librivox.org it has most of the necessary classical writing whether drama or philosophical treatise and even Einstein’s book on relativity and did i also mentioned that they have a almost of of Emerson’s writing on tape, and for the Thomas Paine, Jules Verne, Daniel Defoe and Jane Austen fans out there they have what you are looking for, and for true classicist like my self There is Aesop, Plato and his illustrious pupil whose name i do not need to mention (Aristotle, it slip ) and several others form the Greek and Roman period , No Adam Smith for all the economics lovers out there, the book is 1275 pages long that would take a day to record,I hope have being of help

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:01:38 +0000

anyways,reading is important because we can know all thnings happen in the world,it is a lso one-way of getting knowledge and information.