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In medieval Baghdad, scholars from across the known world gathered at the House of Wisdom to read together, discuss important texts, and explore big questions about knowledge of the natural world and how to live. It was a place where ideas crossed boundaries, and where conversation itself helped keep learning alive and moving from one generation to the next.
In Prague, we’re building something in that same spirit: a space for curious people to read together, discuss great texts, and learn from one another. We explore philosophy, literature, and the arts through reading, reflection, and open discussion. Kafka wrote that ‘a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.’ We read because the great books help us see ourselves more clearly, imagine what we might become, and take part in a much larger conversation about what is true, beautiful, and worth pursuing.
‘Men may live more truly and fully in reading Plato and Shakespeare than at any other time, because then they are participating in essential being and are forgetting their accidental lives.’ — Allan Bloom
The questions that animate us are old ones: How should we live? What is a good society? What is worth caring about? These aren’t questions to answer alone or quickly. Reading together helps us join a long conversation – and add our own voices to it.
No expertise is needed: only curiosity, openness, and a willingness to think together.
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