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>>23319654
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

The hour when ye say: “What good is my happiness! It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency. But my happiness should justify existence itself!”

The hour when ye say: “What good is my reason! Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food? It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!”

The hour when ye say: “What good is my virtue! As yet it hath not made me passionate. How weary I am of my good and my bad! It is all poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!”

The hour when ye say: “What good is my justice! I do not see that I am fervour and fuel. The just, however, are fervour and fuel!”

The hour when we say: “What good is my pity! Is not pity the cross on which he is nailed who loveth man? But my pity is not a crucifixion.”

Have ye ever spoken thus? Have ye ever cried thus? Ah! would that I had heard you crying thus!

It is not your sin—it is your self-satisfaction that crieth unto heaven; your very sparingness in sin crieth unto heaven!

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which ye should be inoculated?

Lo, I teach you the Overman: he is that lightning, he is that frenzy!—

>>18831497
>tfw took the NEET pill
>started stealing from work to supplement my income, prepared myself to get fired mentally
>after months of this I was finally able to not only look my superiors in the eye but to practically accost them with my gaze
>shortly after this somehow this got me promoted

>>17852332
Now this is peak slave morality. The glorious struggle is all one needs to hearten and sustain oneself.

>>17748321
based and neetpilled

>>16027774
Who’s Jacobi? Lit has been posting that picture as Kant forever so it made it into this meme. Is Jacobi a philosopher?

>>13869934
>your facial hair
None. Never shaved
>> 3 favorite philosophers
Epicurus, Max Stirner, Friedrich Nietzsche
>> 3 most hated philosopher
Poseurs best categorized as theologians. I try not to think about them.

>>13854675
I know this by heart anon, thanks for sharing!

How fucking embarrassing of a human being do you have to be to actually enjoy anything written by the same person who unironically wrote this:
>Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world. His act is worse (symbolically considered) than any rape or dynamite outrage. For it destroys all buildings: it insults all women. The thief is satisfied with diamonds; but the suicide is not: that is his crime. He cannot be bribed, even by the blazing stones of the Celestial City. The thief compliments the things he steals, if not the owner of them. But the suicide insults everything on earth by not stealing it. He defiles every flower by refusing to live for its sake. There is not a tiny creature in the cosmos at whom his death is not a sneer. When a man hangs himself on a tree, the leaves might fall off in anger and the birds fly away in fury: for each has received a personal affront. Of course there may be pathetic emotional excuses for the act. There often are for rape, and there almost always are for dynamite. But if it comes to clear ideas and the intelligent meaning of things, then there is much more rational and philosophic truth in the burial at the cross-roads and the stake driven through the body, than in Mr. Archer’s suicidal automatic machines. There is a meaning in burying the suicide apart. The man’s crime is different from other crimes—for it makes even crimes impossible.

I want to learn philosophy, like, all of it. Everything from major philosophers back to Socrates at least. Is there a chart or something that shows books, works, biographies, translations, etc. that are worth reading?

Many thanks.

Post neetch memes

>>8987361

Nietzsche explains this in quite a lot of detail.

>>8822075
Objective best and only important philosophers: Socrates, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche

Nietzsche and Schopenhauer will purge any thinking man of political interest.

>>8685615

Nah, Nietzsche would have slapped Kierkegaard silly and told him to marry the fucking girl instead of dropping her like a hot potato for philosophical feels.

>>8663177

>In order to alleviate his suffering from chronic headaches, persistent vomiting, and a painful digestive disorder, Nietzsche tried a long list of medications as well as a variety of diets. Ironically, it is very likely that Nietzsche’s obsession with fruit was responsible for inflaming his digestive discomfort.

>According to the innkeeper at the Alpine Rose, where Nietzsche stayed for an extended time in 1884, Nietzsche’s daily food intake consistently included a beefsteak for breakfast and fruit for the rest of the day. Not only did Nietzsche purchase fruit from the inn and from local Italian vendors, but he received baskets of fruit shipped to him by his friends as well. This wasn’t a small amount of fruit. Rather, on more than one occasion, Nietzsche ate almost three kilograms (6.5 lbs) of fruit during the course of a single day.

>>8606204

My main man Nietzsche.

>>8582113

>this was a big part of my becoming one

So you were stupid all along...

>>8547387

>Marx was an actual academic, writing formal theses and making citations.

No, Nietzsche was the ACTUAL, literal academic. Basel's youngest ever Professor of Philology at the age of 23.

Marx's WORK may have been more academic than Nietzsche's, but Nietzsche himself was the more superior academic by far.

With this in mind, it soon becomes clear that the apparently nonacademic nature of Nietzsche's work is much more interesting (and revealing) than it first appears. Nietzsche could certainly have written academically, with formal theses/citations/etc, and yet chose not to do so.

We can wonder why, but the answer is quite obvious upon reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche isn't looking for converts; rather, he is preaching to a choir, even if some of it members may not be aware of the fact that they are already members. His fellow 'Creators', to be specific. Regarding those to whom he speaks, or wants to speak, he has no need to 'defend' his philosophy or remarks to any meaningful degree; rather, he only needs to lead them down the rabbit hole.

Nietzsche is very empowering, when correctly understood.

Who here /FreeSpirit/? Where my fellow creators at?

>All these White Knights trying to pre-emptively win favour with women on an online image board by disregarding a sound piece of writing from one of the world's finest philosophers

People need to understand that deeming women inferior, or in some way different, doesn't necessarily mean you hate them. More to the point, one of the biggest red flags in philosophy is to believe Schopenhauer and/or Nietzsche were meaningfully misogynistic, especially on the basis of a few well-known quotations that actually imply that women can be (or are) better than men. For example:

>I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.