This paper wants to reexamine the articles on reading written by Kiyoshi MIKI and to resolve the contradiction between his recommendation for intensive reading and that for extensive reading. In his papers, there are two kinds of discourses that extensive reading is needed for finding out the objects for intensive reading and that intensive reading is needed for recognizing the objects for extensive reading. MIKI was fond of reading classical books, and his favorite books require intensive reading. But in his articles, MIKI argued that who reads classical books has to orient extensive reading, because, for avoiding mental automatism, he had to read works by anonymous authors so as to deeply appreciate classical books. This contradiction between his recommendation for intensive reading and that for extensive reading relates to his discussion of common sense, and that of three order of Blaise Pascal. Due to Pascal, MIKI insisted that the intelligentsia must move from the sphere where he lives to the sphere where he does not live and know. To go to chronically another sphere, the intelligentsia must read classical books intensively, and to go to spatially another sphere, he must read contemporary journalistic writings extensively. According to this interpretation, we can resolve the contradiction of MIKI.