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I'm looking for book recommendations which have short nuggets of wisdom where the author doesn't need several pages of story to make a point and manages to make the point in a page. Like the daily stoic.

Or any book were the chapters are short and self contained.

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>>22210830
Gitanjali

>> No.22210860

>>22210830
Dao DebJing

>> No.22210867

>>22210830
Read some Nietzsche. He tends to write in aphorisms, which are a popular commonplace in German lit of that time.

>> No.22210887

>>22210830
I'm currently reading essential Sufism and I'm deeply enjoying it and thinking about it. Most quotes are just a few lines long.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL657426M/Essential_sufism

>> No.22210896

>>22210830
It's still stoicism, but Letters from a Stoic had me writing down notes almost every chapter (letter) which are fairly short and self-contained. Ironically there's one where he says
>"It is disgraceful for a man to go hunting after gems of wisdom and prop himself up with a minute number of the best known sayings."

>> No.22210899

>>22210860
I think this was the foremost book that inspired Henry Miller

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Vonny boi

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>>22210830
the maxims part fits what you want.

>38. We must not fight anyone's opinion, but think that if we try to dissuade him from all the nonsense he believes, we will reach the age of Methuselah without having finished.

>> No.22210928

>>22210915
His favorite book was the Upanishads

>> No.22210971

>>22210830
Handoraclesy Davila, Twilight of the Idols
epictetus

>> No.22211017

>>22210830
>>22210830
Any book by derek sivers. Thank me later dawg.

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>>22210912
Thanks for the reminder to read slaughter house 5. I've never read his work.

>>22210896
Seneca would be very displeased with me. I like that this one is stoicism, thank you! The letters format is perfect for what I'm looking for.

>>22210915
I didnt know he wrote maxims, amazing.

>>22210887
Thanks for the link! This is the first time I've heard of Sufism. Deep thought from a few lines is exactly what I'm into.

>>22210867
I didn't know that was his style. After some research I'll start with The Gay Science since people reference those Aphorisms of it most.

>>22210854
Beautiful poems, great recommendation

>>22210860
I keep hearing of this, I'll finally give it a read

>>22211017
I'll thank you now

>>22210971
I found the latter 2, but what is the first one? I couldn't find it on google.

>> No.22211486

Treasury of Traditional Wisdom by Perry

>> No.22211507

>>22210830
the tartar steppe

>> No.22211701

>>22210830
Frog and Toad

>> No.22212229

>>22210830
Book of Disquiet
Not everyone's thing, but I found it very soothing.

>> No.22212436

Moby dick has relatively short chapters

>> No.22212491

>>22210830
Moby dick

>> No.22213409

>>22210830

This Book Needs No Title by Raymond Smullyman Awesome showing of Taoism in a series of short essays. My favorite parts would be Philosophical Fables, Is Zen Paradoxical?, and The Fruit of Knowledge.

>> No.22213931

>>22210830
Tao te ching obviously but also as I lay dying, I don't think any chapter goes over ~10 pages

>> No.22214044

>>22210830
Anna Karenina