Chase Your Reading

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents. To desire that a man should retain everything he has ever read, is the same as wishing him to retain in his stomach all that he has ever eaten. He has been bodily nourished on what

Obviamente alguém iria querer saber por que as pessoas eram diferentes — por que algumas são mais inteligentes ou mais éticas — e se havia alguma coisa que as tornava permanentemente distintas.

if you make people read quickly, they are much less likely to grapple with complex or challenging material. They start to prefer simplistic statements.

dual desire to obtain insight and be entertained.