There’s something remarkable about the survival of ancient wisdom, the words and ideas that have travelled through centuries of upheaval, conquest, and cultural transformation to find their way into our hands. And yet, here we are, with more access to knowledge than any generation before us, still wrestling with the same fundamental questions, making the same mistakes, and seemingly no closer to becoming the extraordinary civilization we imagine ourselves to be. Perhaps the problem was never simply a lack of knowledge. Perhaps it has more to do with what we choose to preserve, what we’re permitted to learn, and what we’re willing to do with what we know.
The Inheritance of Wisdom: What We Do With What We Know
Ancient Wisdom in the Modern World