the bible is stupid. every philosophical treatise youve read is stupid. dune is stupid. your opinion is stupid. my opinion is stupid.
but combine all those, and you have pure genius.
my point being: no single opinion, book, collaboration, or anything is enough to base one's life around. ultimately, everyone is one specific neuro-chemical balance with one life experienced; and only by studying as many of them as possible can you form a relatively accurate perspective of life.
ive read everything from genesis to the 5 pillars of islam to socrates to zarathustra to lovecraft to orwell to emerson to hegel to thoreau to the god delusion to...you get the idea. if there was an end all guide to life, we would all be following it. absorb all the information you can; anything and everything.