Ryan Holiday: A wise philosopher doesn't just study their particular school of thought, but surveys widely. Seneca discusses the ideas of Epicurus so much in his famous letters. There are all sorts of things that Montessori gets right, and stuff that might not work for your family. The Daily Dad is a survey course of different thinkers, different ideas, different insights. Some apply to you, some don't.
It was Seneca who said that a wise philosopher doesn’t just study in their particular school of thought, but surveys widely, taking and absorbing ideas from any and all thinkers. He would say he read like a spy in the enemy’s camp, and that he’d quote even a bad author if the line was good.
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