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A non-philosopher's attempt to persuade you that reading philosophy is beneficial to all other literary endeavors. I also offer a starting point and a reading list.

A wise sage for your journey:
   / gbisadler  

My survey/landscape recommendations:
1. The Story of Philosophy, Durant
2. A History of Western Philosophy, Russell
3. Plato at the Googleplex, Goldstein

My primary source recommendations:
1. Republic, Plato
2. Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
3. The Prince, Machiavelli
4. Complete Essays, Bacon
5. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes
6. Leviathan, Hobbes
7. Theological-Political Treatise, Spinoza
8. Pensées, Pascal
9. Ethics, Spinoza
10. Second Treatise of Government, Locke
11. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke
12. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Berkeley
13. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume
14. The Social Contract, Rousseau
15. Candide, Voltaire
16. Critique of Pure Reason, Kant
17. Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel
18. The World as Will and Presentation, Schopenhauer
19. Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel
20. Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard
21. The Communist Manifesto, Marx
22. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1, Marx
23. Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
24. On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche
25. Being and Time, Heidegger
26. Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein