/lit/ - Literature

>ITT: a lot people saying life has no meaning, then telling you what it's all about like it does.

Accept there are a lot of things, very important things, that humans cannot understand. Reading and math can help your mind, but ultimately life is a paradox that cannot be solved. Seneca, Kant, Schopenhauer, Cioran, and pali cannon might help.

>My plan? To do absolutely nothing. I call this "life bad."

>Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a god the consequences are incalculable.

https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/CIORAN_1949_Genealogy_of_fanaticism.pdf

>Man is free - and sterile - only in the intervals when the gods die; slave - and creative - only in the interval when, as tyrants, they flourish.
Emil Cioran

Can you imagine this guy having sex or dominating a woman?

"Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a god the consequences are incalculable. We kill only in the name of a god or of his counterfeits: the excesses provoked by the goddess Reason, by the concept of nation, class, or race are akin to those of the Inquisition or of the Reformation. The ages of fervor abound in bloody exploits: a Saint Teresa could only be the contemporary of the auto-da-fé, a Luther of the repression of the Peasants’ Revolt. In every mystic outburst, the moans of victims parallel the moans of ecstasy… . Scaffolds, dungeons, jails flourish only in the shadow of a faith—of that need to believe which has infested the mind forever. The devil pales beside the man who owns a truth, his truth. We are unfair to a Nero, a Tiberius: it was not they who invented the concept heretic: they were only degenerate dreamers who happened to be entertained by massacres. The real criminals are men who establish an orthodoxy on the religious or political level, men who distinguish between the faithful and the schismatic."

"What is the Fall but the pursuit of a truth and the assurance you have found it, the passion for a dogma, domicile within a dogma? The result is fanaticism—fundamental defect which gives man the craving for effectiveness, for prophecy, for terror—a lyrical leprosy by which he contaminates souls, subdues them, crushes or exalts them… . Only the skeptics (or idlers or aesthetes) escape, because they propose nothing, because they—humanity’s true benefactors—undermine fanaticism’s purposes, analyze its frenzy. I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a Saint Paul, for a jesting wisdom is gentler than an unbridled sanctity. In the fervent mind you always find the camouflaged beast of prey; no protection is adequate against the claws of a prophet…"

"A human being possessed by a belief and not eager to pass it on to others is a phenomenon alien to the earth, where our mania for salvation makes life unbreathable. Look around you: everywhere, specters preaching; each institution translates a mission; city halls have their absolute, even as the temples—officialdom, with its rules—a metaphysics designed for monkeys… Everyone trying to remedy everyone’s life: even beggars, even the incurable aspire to it: the sidewalks and hospitals of the world overflow with reformers. The longing to become a source of events affects each man like a mental disorder or a desired malediction. Society—an inferno of saviors! What Diogenes was looking for with his lantern was an indifferent man. …"

>>17239650
Here you go, OP. Emil Cioran

https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/CIORAN_1949_Genealogy_of_fanaticism.pdf

He's a good read but kills all my motivation for anything. Like a Artaud on the brink of insanity rather than in it.

I want to keep reading but it seems almost completely counter-intuitive to everything, like a negation of life as it is to everyone. I'm not rich so I also need monies to live, how did this faggot live as a recluse even though he was relatively unknown for the longest time?

Write your own aphorisms.

I'll start: Heaven evokes visions of unity, Hell strikes one as suffering. Death itself is selfish as it should follow of the already selfish nature of life, it should be then that nothing matters but yourself in the end(but what progress is there really to be made you, yourself alone?).

Is he a good read?

"Compared to music, mysticism, and poetry, philosophical activity proceeds from a diminished impulse and a suspect depth, prestigious only for the timid and the tepid. Moreover, philosophy -- impersonal anxiety, refuge among anaemic ideas -- is the recourse of all who would elude the corruptive exuberance of life."
—Emil Cioran

>>13966969
"Compared to music, mysticism, and poetry, philosophical activity proceeds from a diminished impulse and a suspect depth, prestigious only for the timid and the tepid. Moreover, philosophy -- impersonal anxiety, refuge among anaemic ideas -- is the recourse of all who would elude the corruptive exuberance of life."
—Emil Cioran

>>13533987
Marx obv
Kant
Cioran
Bataille
Baudrillard
Adorno and the rest of the frankfurt school
Debord
Frantz fanon
Land and brassier

holy fuck how could one man be so pathetic?

just look at him

>>13204906
>tfw only 180IQ
Why even live, bros?

Idk why I some feeling that this guy is just a hack. Is he? I know the memes of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche were pretty much false considering they wrote about being le nihilism or le sad hardly ever and it was actual philosophical stuff most of the time. Cioran just seems to be what these memes actually try to portray but i'm not saying this is a bad thing but is he just the avg sadfrog /nightwalk/ doomer?

no hate, seems like a pretty sad dude i mean just look at pic related;hes so melancholic looking :*(