What is our purpose while reading?

Kasım Çaldaştan
2 min readJan 4, 2022

Reading or Thinking, Whole That’s The Point

In recently you may have came across on social media sharing about that read 100 books along a year. This type people’s aim to show what they are intellectual and review the last year. they read every their find books by get and defend motto ‘Readers are Leaders’ with they are dreaming good future.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not opposite to reading book but it would be benefit to be aware the indications and symptoms of Bibliyoman or Tsundoku diseases.
I also defend it thinking and produce idea as important as reading book. to avoid be lynch, i support my idea with the below refer of two important philosopher. i leave what i want to say to your comment.

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with his pen the lines that have been pencilled by the teacher. Accordingly, in reading, the work of thinking is, for the greater part, done for us. This is why we are consciously relieved when we turn to reading after being occupied with our own thoughts. But, in reading, our head is, however, really only the arena of some one else’s thoughts. And so it happens that the person who reads a great deal — that is to say, almost the whole day, and recreates himself by spending the intervals in thoughtless diversion, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who is always riding at last forgets how to walk. Such, however, is the case with many men of learning: they have read themselves stupid. For to read in every spare moment, and to read constantly, is more paralysing to the mind than constant manual work, which, at any rate, allows one to follow one’s own thoughts.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is retain away me from seriousness. You can see never book around me when i do deep study. I avoid anyone talking or even thinking around me. Isn’t that what reading is already?
ECCE HOMO
Friedrich Nietzsche

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