While wisdom in itself can be difficult to comprehensively define, such a simple explanation of it by Durant encompassed a core tenet of it. It is to see events with wide eyes that cast vision upon the horizon, it is to realise that events do not happen in one’s life in isolation. That everything is a connected to everything else and that there are patterns which we can spot and observe which point towards the greater purpose behind them.
Books
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
the act of being engrossed in reading can help build the habit of attentiveness and the cultivation of silence. Jacobs writes about how a child sitting next to an adult reading them a book watches vividly in an engrossed manner as ideas, imagination and value are extracted from stationary pieces of printed text, as an aura of silence is created, blocking out everything else in the world that may exist for as long as the book has words yet to be read.
The Law
According to the ideas of Bastiat, placing such duties upon the law is not only unreasonable but can be actively detrimental to the social fabric of the state. For the more domains that government is involved in, the larger its surface area to fail or fall short, resulting in people dissatisfied and angry.
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