I'm looking for book recommendations which have short nuggets of wisdom where the author doesn't need several pages of story to make a point and manages to make the point in a page. Like the daily stoic.
Or any book were the chapters are short and self contained.
Gitanjali
Dao DebJing
I think this was the foremost book that inspired Henry Miller
Read some Nietzsche. He tends to write in aphorisms, which are a popular commonplace in German lit of that time.
I'm currently reading essential Sufism and I'm deeply enjoying it and thinking about it. Most quotes are just a few lines long.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL657426M/Essential_sufism
It's still stoicism, but Letters from a Stoic had me writing down notes almost every chapter (letter) which are fairly short and self-contained. Ironically there's one where he says
>"It is disgraceful for a man to go hunting after gems of wisdom and prop himself up with a minute number of the best known sayings."
Vonny boi
the maxims part fits what you want.
>38. We must not fight anyone's opinion, but think that if we try to dissuade him from all the nonsense he believes, we will reach the age of Methuselah without having finished.
His favorite book was the Upanishads
Handoraclesy Davila, Twilight of the Idols
epictetus
Treasury of Traditional Wisdom by Perry
the tartar steppe
Frog and Toad
Book of Disquiet
Not everyone's thing, but I found it very soothing.
Moby dick has relatively short chapters
Moby dick
This Book Needs No Title by Raymond Smullyman Awesome showing of Taoism in a series of short essays. My favorite parts would be Philosophical Fables, Is Zen Paradoxical?, and The Fruit of Knowledge.
Tao te ching obviously but also as I lay dying, I don't think any chapter goes over ~10 pages
Anna Karenina