/lit/ - Literature

Are dog owners or cat owners better philosophers?

It will be a syncretic movement that mixes up liberal identity fundamentalism, Goddess worship, and climate apocalypticism.
>Shankara and Nagarjuna
No go. Hinduism and Buddhism are already well established in the tech bro world as a thing for former atheists who took a psychedelic once. It's also becoming kind of taboo for westerners to convert to eastern religions because of cultural appropriation hysteria and fears of being accused of orientalism.
>Plotinus
It takes way too much time for the average atomized worker drone to get into something like this. They want something they can pop like pills without any serious intellectualizing.
>World as Will and Representation
Unfortunately, Schoppie is too #problematic to catch on due to his misogyny.
>Being and Time
See above, but with national socialism and antisemitism.

>The pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between the two. If the reader wishes to see shortly whether this statement is true, let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other.
Please don't fool yourself. None of the people above have a grasp on how to escape nihilism. They all playing a tight rope act without knowing, and if a strong enough wind blows, or the rope snaps, all their empty words will be good for nothing.
The only way to "outgrow" nihilism is by finding enough momentary pleasures to distract yourself and being lucky enough to die peacefully before nature destroys you and everything you love. You can spend your life doing an effort to achieve this and hoping luck is on your side, but that's just it.
Trying to minimize suffering for yourself is not much in the way of life meaning, but it's what you have to do anyway.

A pessimist Buddhist life-denying University of Berlin professor and anti-Hegalian was teaching a class on Jesus Christ, known gnostic

"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?"

At this moment, a sickly unkempt weirdo who had written several dissertations on philology and understood the necessity of life and fully supported the execution of Socrates as decided by the Athenian people stood up and grabbed his dick.

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”

The arrogant professor smirked quite Germanly and smugly replied “What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.”

"Wrong. Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.”

The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of the book of Job. He stormed out of the room crying those pessimist crocodile tears.

The three other students in the classroom applauded and all registered with the Freikorps, Spartakusaufstand, or unaffiliated that day and rejected the concept of a lord and savior. An eagle named "Einzige und sein Eigentum" flew into the room and was quickly covered up with a blanket. A renouncement of allegiance was read several times, and God himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.

The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died rambling about ahiṃsā and was forced to relive his miserable existence for eternity.

That student's name? Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

Carpe diem

>>13209327
go fuck your bitch schoppy

I'd guess Atman.

Arthur Schopenhauer, just to piss him off

>>10699356
>The body is given in two entirely different ways to the subject of knowledge, who becomes an individual only through his identity with it. It is given as an idea in intelligent perception, as an object among other objects and subject to the law of objects. And it is also given in quite a different way as that which is immediately known to everyone, and is signified by the word 'will.' Every true act of his will is also at once and without exception a movement of his body. The act of the will and the movement of the body are not two different things objectively known, which the bond of causality unites; they do not stand in the relation of cause and effect; they are one and the same, but given in entirely different ways -- immediately, and again in perception for the understanding. The action of the body is nothing but the act of the will objectified, i.e. passed into perception. It will appear later that this is true of every movement of the body, not merely those which follow upon motives, but also involuntary movements which follow upon mere stimuli, and indeed, that the whole body is nothing but the will objectified, i.e. will become idea.

For Schopenhauer, the Will not only precedes all meaningful activity, but also all that is apparently meaningless.

"Hope is the confusion of a desire for a thing with its probability."

>>10206766
If you're the sort of person who thinks in order to write, just read more of whatever it is you want to write, and you'll find yourself "getting better" at it. If you want to write science fiction, read that, if you want to write drama, read drama, and so on.

If you just write down what you think, on the other hand, read whatever helps you clarify your conceptions. But don't spend too much time reading, or writing, because this ends up supplanting original thought, in the end.

>canon
The World as Will and Representation

>best
On Women

Did he fuck it?

>>9591322
Mrs. Schopenhauer

did he fuck the dog?

>Schopenhauer was right about literally everything except the poodles.

Prove me wrong. You can't.

>Obit anus, abit onus

Has there ever been a more FIRE roast in literary history?

Saw this in a review of a Peter Hitchens book:
>the division he believes is now more important than the split between Left and Right—the deeper gulf between the restless progressive and the Christian pessimist. This division, the difference between Prometheus and St Paul, the chasm that divides Shelley from T. S. Eliot, Lloyd George from Lord Salisbury

Who are some other literary examples of the restless progressive and the Christian pessimist?

Has anyone in human history been more essentially right than this sad fuck?

Good websites where I can download quality /lit/ and scholary works?
Bookz sucks.

Did he fuck it?

Can any one suggest essays by Schopenhauer? I liked the on woman and on suicide. What other ones should I dive into?

Did he fuck it?