I've just begun reading Errata: An Examined Life (1998) by George Steiner. He is a man of great knowledge and of great wisdom, clearly visible in just the first few pages. Incidentally he writes extremely well, for instance:

I define a "classic," in literature, in music, in the arts, in philosophic argument, as a signifying form which "reads" us. It reads us more than we read (listen to, perceive) it. ... Each time we engage with it, the classic will question us.

His best known book is called After Babel (1975) which (per Claude) "argues that all acts of translation — between languages, between minds, between moments in time — are imperfect negotiations with the fundamental human condition of linguistic plurality and mutual opacity."[0]

Consider reading his books, listening to his lectures/interviews (he has a marvelous accent). Following is a quote from an interview [1]:

"I was briefly a guest professor in China and I met some of the archaeologists who had been digging up these unbelievable armies of terracotta—10, 12,000 soldiers, horses, Emperors—in the tombs of the West in Lishan. First, they told me that every single figure had a different expression on his face. So I remembered my childhood, but in that case, I asked, 'Don’t you want to see them all?'

'Well, no, no. We are putting the Earth back over large parts of those armies. We're making sure they are dry and safe. Let them be.'

So I said, 'Explain that to me.'

They said, 'Those we have seen are already so wonderful they fill our scholarship, our imagination. Let future generations have the joy of finding the next 10,000. We're telling them where they are; enough for us.'

That was a very important moment for me. I was deeply moved. The clichés about Chinese wisdom and Chinese sense of time suddenly came home to me in a deeply personal way. So now I say to myself, 'Stop running around the libraries; you won't read those books in your lifetime. Others will have the joy. There are museums you will never see, landscapes in which you will never sit or see the evening light come in.' All right, as long as it's possible for others after you.”

[0]: claude.ai

[1]: YouTube