Reading... a Sin???

"Reading is nothing more than a substitute for thought of one's own ... A man should read only when his own thoughts stagnate at their source, which will happen often enough even with the best of minds. On the other hand, to take up a book for the purpose of scaring away one's own original thoughts is sin against the Holy Spirit. It is like running away from Nature to look at a musuem of dried plants or gaze at a landscape in copper plate. --Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature