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>The lion or the tiger, not man, should have the place he occupies in the scale of creatures. But it is never the strong, it is the weak who crave and who gain power, by the combined effect of cunning and madness. Because the beast feels no need to increase its strength, which is genuine, it does not lower itself to tools.

Lmao holy shit how will might is right cucks ever recover?

>> No.13964491

I'm reading it right now as well

>> No.13964523

>>13964463
Can you recommend any of his works which aren't about anti-natalism? E.g where is the quote in the OP from

>> No.13964535

>>13964523
>where is the quote in the OP from
The Fall Into Time

>> No.13964554
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>>13964523
>hylics reading Cioran

>> No.13964559

>>13964463
I'd give this guy an atomic wedgie and kick him off a bridge.

>> No.13964568

>>13964463
this board sucks ever since the leftist cucks joined

>> No.13964575

>>13964568
This has always been a Marxist board sweetie

>> No.13964577

>>13964568
>muh leftist boogeyman
Fuck off

>> No.13964578

>>13964463
Sounds like a furfag.

>> No.13964582

>>13964575
Marx got btfo in the 90s, only integralists, distributists and pre-Marxist syndicalists are allowed here.

>> No.13964585

>>13964578
The absolute state of /lit/

>> No.13964687

>>13964559
>>13964578
Based.

>> No.13965020

>>13964582
based

>> No.13965063

>>13964578
lel

>> No.13965382

>>13964559
Wouldn't you get grounded for that?
>>13964463
Might is right, its just that we are so "mighty" it has driven us insane. Our fear is our greatest strength and weakness.

>> No.13965515

>>13964559
I'd give him a swirlie then pull his pants down and fuck him while his head is in the toilet.

>> No.13965518

>>13964463
And yet, it's precisely because of the inadequacy of strength that it's man, and not the lion or tiger, occupying this place. Philosophy is only interesting when it engages with the world, which so few philosophers are willing to do.

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>>13964578

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>in the ages when man was rare, there might have been some interest in being Someone, the same is no longer true today, now that man is devalued. On a planet invaded by the flesh, whose consideration matters still, when the idea of one's neighbor is drained of all content and we cannot love humanity in detail or en masse?
>In the days when providential plagues swept the cities clean, the individual, in his capacity as survivor, inspired with some reason a certain respect: he was still a being. There are no more beings, there is only this swarm of dying creatures stricken with longevity, all the more hateful in that they are so good at organizing their agony.
>To them we prefer almost any animal, if only because it is hunted down by them, despoilers and profaners of a landscape once ennobled by the presence of beasts. Paradise is the absence of man.