Ask HN: What Book Has the Most Page-for-Page Wisdom?

8 points·JSeymourATL··12 comments

Curious to hear from HN'ers, What Book has the Most Page-for-Page Wisdom?

Inspired by a recent article by Shane Parrish > http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/10/the-most-page-for-page-wisdom/

How about Solomon's Proverbs? Composed between 4 and 5 centuries before Sun Tzu even lived, translated into Greek 100 years before the earliest known Art of War manuscript, and containing a collection of ancient wisdom in bite size chunks-- page for page the most wisdom you could possibly find.

Traditional English Translation: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8300/8300-h/8300-22h.htm

Modern Reading Translation: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+1&vers...

- The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper

- Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer

- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

- Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

- The Enchihirdion by Epictetus

- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

- Letters of a Stoic by Seneca

- Dhammapada (various translations)

- Bhagavad Gita (various translations)

Dhammapada or Tao The Ching.