/lit/ - Literature

>>19181565
Malcom Lowry had an extremely small penis

Thomas Aquinas
And are you really 6'3? Most mutts lie about their height. I am 193cm and mutts tell me that I must be 6'6 or 6'7.

Wilde was a bit above 6'3

>>19181565
Tall people don't need to become philosophers anon they can do whatever they want literally rule the world if they want to
Don't look into statistics regarding the height of world leaders if you don't want your worldview shattered

>>19181565
>most philosophers are of average height
>>19181581
>And are you really 6'3? Most mutts lie about their height.
I need to know if OP considers Heidegger "average" now.

>>19181565

The only tall person I'm aware of who could be construed as a philosopher is Chesterton. So to your point OP, I'm not aware of any good (much less great) thinkers who were tall.

>>19181565
I usually completely dismiss tall peoples opinion. Talking with them is like having a discussion about dating with models. They are just somewhere else and its hard to keep a straight face.

>I've noticed most philosophers are of average height, which make since it's rare for someone two possess more than one uncommon trait, a great mind and great stature.
I think its more akin to the situation with engineers and programmers being more introverted.
its not that to be a good engineer/programmer you need to be introverted but introverted people are just less interested in others and their free time is spent with things.
For philosophers tall people don't really have a problem of being heard or noticed so they don't value it that much. But for a shorter person it might be a big thing. And thus if they want to get attention they have to get some good rhetoric, improve their speech and make themselves interesting.
Also I am 178 cm
and jordan peterson is tall idk if hes a philosopher

>>19181598
>Don't look into statistics regarding the height of world leaders if you don't want your worldview shattered
what worldview and what statistics? i do agree with you tho

>>19181700
Ye he be spittin fax tho

>>19181598
>height of world leaders
Literally all useless puppets of the banking system

guenon if he counts

>>19181581
I double checked my height, I'm actually 191cm 6,2" A fuck up on my part.

>>19181609
The average height in Germany back then for men was 5,4" So yes he is tall.

Source https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-height-of-men-for-selected-countries?tab=map&time=1890

>>19181565
>Hobbes maintained his intellectual and physical powers to the very end. His health was poor in his youth, but improved in middle life. He wrote his autobiography at eighty-four, and when eighty-six translated Homer. In person he is described as over six feet in height, erect, keen-eyed, with black hair. He had a contempt for physicians, was regular in his dietary and other habits; used tobacco, and states gravely that during his long life he calculated he had been drunk one hundred times. After he was sixty he took no wine. At seventy-five he played tennis. Intellectually audacious, he had personal timidity; charges of time-serving made against him have not been substantiated, however, as even so harsh a critic as Cunningham confesses. That Hobbes was a man of marked social attraction can be inferred easily. His friendships with Descartes, Bacon, Lord Herbert, Ben Jonson, and many other typical great men of his day, indicate it, and there was much in his experience to develop that side of his character.

>>19181565
Rene Guenon was 6’2”

I love him and I’m 6’5”

>>19181735
>The average height in Germany back then for men was 5,4" So yes he is tall.
Have you seen Heidegger?

>>19181665
>Talking with them is like having a discussion about dating with models
Yeah but what is special to tall people? Just because we are tall doesnt mean we are popular, or get lots of ladies.

It really is amazing how many great men were substantially above average height. A hallowing reminder of how dominant one's genes are in determining success.

I'm 6"6 btw

>>19182657
This, except I'm only 6'1, a manlet compared to Guenon

>>19184933
Would you say you're a great man

>>19181565
Except Romans were usually severely balding and relatively short in stature and they conquered most of their known world. Stop cucking to femcel standards and take care of yourself and your own shit. Humiliate roasties that attempt to use any kind of degradation against you. Remember: they will NEVER procreate because their eggs are FRIED!

>>19185028
No but your mother would.

>>19181565
I'm 6'3 and this meme irks me because a two inch difference in height doesn't put someone below your shoulder. I get that that's the joke but I'm gonna be autistic and not care. Fuck this meme.

>>19185104
Terrifying wit there, burger

>>19186376
My mom says I’m gifted

>>19181565
All the best philosophers were short. Kant, Heidegger, Hegel were all shorties. Can't think of any who were tall, though.

>>19184933
>It really is amazing how many great men were substantially above average height.
Name 5.
>>19181598
What do you mean by "world leaders?"

>>19181735
>>19183176
Heidegger was 4'9.

>>19181665
Imagine being such a normie that you care about "being heard." Philophosphy is interesting because the world is interesting. It's not about getting laid or being popular. This is probably why there is no good woman philosophers. Their nature can't understand the purpose of philosophy

>>19181665
Imagine being such a normie that you care about "being heard." Philophosphy is interesting because the world is interesting. It's not about getting laid or being popular. This is probably why there is no good woman philosophers. Their nature can't understand the purpose of philosophy.

>>19181565
>it's rare for someone two possess more than one uncommon trait
No, the opposite. Outliers in one measure tend to be outliers in other measures. For example, if you differ from the average in body height by x, it's also likely your intelligence varies from average by x.

But it doesn't necessarily correlate in the direction you'd wish. You can end up super tall and super dumb.

>>19188334
>You can end up super tall and super dumb.
Like black people?

>>19188456
Don't forget big cock (although microdick is just as likely). All those stereotypes stem probably from the outlier anomaly.