Is it possible to read too much?
>>24839049based on personal experience, it depends on the subject matter of the literature.
>>24839049Can you read so much content that it becomes bad for you? Not sure. Can you read for so many hours a day that it becomes bad for you? of course. I suspect that the latter happens so much sooner than you can get to some semblance of the latter that one never makes it to the symptoms that would come from reading too much content, because they expire from reading for too long before they can.
>>24839091*Some semblance of the formerfuck me
>>24839049When we read, someone else thinks for us; we repeat merely his mental process. It is like the pupil who, when learning to write, goes over with his pen the strokes made in pencil by the teacher. Accordingly, when we read, the work of thinking is for the most part taken away from us.Hence the noticeable relief when from preoccupation with our thoughts we pass to reading. But while we are reading our mind is really only the playground of other people’s ideas; and when these finally depart, what remains?The result is that, whoever reads very much and almost the entire day but at intervals amuses himself with thoughtless pastime, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who always rides ultimately forgets how to walk. But such is the case with very many scholars; they have read themselves stupid. For constant reading, which is at once resumed at every free moment, is even more paralysing to the mind than is manual work; for with the latter we can give free play to our own thoughts.Just as a spring finally loses its elasticity through the constant pressure of a foreign body, so does the mind through the continual pressure of other people’s ideas. Just as we upset the stomach by too much food and thereby do harm to the whole body, so can we cram and strangle the mind by too much mental pabulum. For the more we read, the fewer the traces that are left behind in the mind by what has been read. It becomes like a blackboard whereon many things have been written over one another. Hence we never come to ruminate; but only through this do we assimilate what we have read, just as food nourishes us not by being eaten but by being digested.On the other hand, if we are forever reading without afterwards thinking further about what we have read, this does not take root and for the most part is lost. Generally speaking, it is much the same with mental nourishment as with bodily; scarcely a fiftieth part of what is taken is assimilated; the rest passes off through evaporation, respiration, or otherwise.In addition to all this, is the fact that thoughts reduced to paper are generally nothing more than the footprints of a man walking in the sand. It is true that we see the path he has taken; but to know what he saw on the way, we must use our own eyes…
>>24839250>The result is that, whoever reads very much and almost the entire day but at intervals amuses himself with thoughtless pastime, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who always rides ultimately forgets how to walkWhat a pseud lol
>>24839250Reddit is down the hall and to the left.
>>24839279>>24839656he's absolutely right and anyone who has spoken to scholars (or even read their articles) will know he is. anyway isn't this schop? reddit my ass, how about -you- go back
>>24839049You'll know you've read too much when start looking for a squire to aid you in your quest to restore the lost age of chivalry. Anything short of that is still a healthy amount.
>>24839091>>24839097Don’t worry anon, even before I saw your correction I assumed you had made a typo and read your post accordingly.:)
