/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10173387]

What are some of the quotes that changed your life and thinking forever?

[Anonymous No.10173446]

>>10173387
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

[Anonymous No.10173472]

>>10173387
More of an excerpt, but early in The Brothers Karamazov when the elder Zosima explains "active love" to the lady in the chapter "A Lady of Little Faith". I've tried it in my own life and it's had a great impact.

[Anonymous No.10173548]

Be brave enough to break your own heart. Cheryl Strayed

[Anonymous No.10173554]

>>10173472
this is totally better than that >>10173446 isolationistic egocentrism.

[Anonymous No.10173560]

"Proof itself, of any sort, is impossible, without an axiom (as Godel proved). Thus faith in God is a prerequisite for all proof."

[Anonymous No.10173561]

>>10173560
holy...

[Anonymous No.10173638]

>>10173387
John 1:1 was the line that made all of philosophy click for me

[Anonymous No.10173816]

"Nothing matters" -Rick and Morty

[Anonymous No.10174500]

>>10173816
"Look at me Morty! I'm PICKLE-RICK" - P. Rick

[Anonymous No.10174513]

>>10173387
"En la vida estás solo."
"Nadie te debe nada."

[Anonymous No.10174518]

>>10173560
>implying axioms are whimsical and arbitrary
>implying tautologies can't be proven without using god
my feels therefore x is axiomatically true
*proves god*

[Anonymous No.10174530]

"Fate guides those who are willing, those who are not, it drags"

[Anonymous No.10174547]

"Wir haben's nicht erlebt, wir können's nicht wissen"
said my grandmother when I told her that surely democracy is a more pleasant system to live in than monarchy.

[Anonymous No.10174556]

>>10173638
Clicked me for me when i realized it was "logos" not necessarily word

[Anonymous No.10174569]

>>10174513
edgy

[Anonymous No.10174573]

>>10174518
>You can't use feelings logically
This is why you're a virgin, anon.

[Anonymous No.10174592]

>>10174573
i may be a virgin, but at least i don't ad hoc invent axioms to support my foundational beliefs.

[Anonymous No.10174621]

>>10173387
"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

[Anonymous No.10174633]

While there's life there's hope.

[Anonymous No.10174655]

>Every time you leave the house dress as if you were to meat the love of your life
Seems pretty silly and superficial, but it made me realize that I never put myself in situations where I could realistically meat someone else. Ever since I'm trying to look good and dress well and keep my room somewhat clean.

[Anonymous No.10174676]

>>10174592
whoa.

[Anonymous No.10174702]

>>10174592
Fucking kek what a quote

[Anonymous No.10174711]

>>10174592
unironically one of the better quotes in this thread

[Anonymous No.10174722]

>>10173554
Egoism=/=egocentrism

[Anonymous No.10174743]

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge, exists without my consent.

[Anonymous No.10174776]

>>10174743
Lel who said this patent absurdity?

[Anonymous No.10174791]

>>10174592
I would like to see someone prove this wrong.

[Anonymous No.10174798]

>>10173638
lol this is so true
but for me it's "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the world"

[Anonymous No.10174801]

>>10174776
How is it absurd?

[Anonymous No.10174804]

>>10173387
>What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue.
>The hour when you say: What good is my happiness? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment. But my happiness should justify existence itself!
>The hour when you say: What good is my reason? Does it long for knowledge as the lion for his prey? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment!
>The hour when you say: What good is my virtue? It has not yet driven me mad! How weary I am of my good and my evil! It is all poverty and filth and wretched contentment!
>The hour when you say: What good is my justice? I do not see that I am filled with fire and burning coals. But the just are filled with fire and burning coals!
>The hour when you say: What good is my pity? Is not pity the cross on which he is nailed who loves man? But my pity is no crucifixion!
Sometimes I burn with such hatred for my own indolence...and in those moments I know I am not beyond redemption.

[Anonymous No.10174805]

>>10174547
based grandma. best thing my grandma taught me was "get your hands out of your ass and do it yourself" I thought I should base a whole book around that sentence

[Anonymous No.10174810]

>>10174791
Someone would have to have sex with anon for that

[Anonymous No.10174818]

>>10174592
>implying you didn't just do that

[Anonymous No.10174833]

"Every word in every language is sourced from our fears. We communicate with each other only because of fear of death. We talk to others only to appear superior in front of the crowd, which comes from our fear of abandonment. Only actions can carry value, but language, to enemies and friends, is used to keep everything under your control." - Draft of a line from my book in progress.

[Anonymous No.10174834]

>>10174818
show me how

[Anonymous No.10174971]

>>10173387
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

[Anonymous No.10175009]

>>10174655
>Keep my room somewhat clean

[Anonymous No.10175018]

>>10174801
Becuase this is to devorce man's conceptual faculty from existence. Subjects thinking from the objects of thought.

[Anonymous No.10175047]

"Nothing of that which is human is alien to me"

[Anonymous No.10175074]

>>10174592
>Feelings can't influence axioms
>Feelings are ad hoc
This is why you will continue to be a virgin forever

[Anonymous No.10175078]

>>10174834
>Feelings can't influence axioms
Nice ad hoc rationalization

[Anonymous No.10175123]

>>10175074
>>10175078
right, all my feelings are axioms while we're at it let's include all cognition (because really they're all phenomenology in the end) and all propositional statements are axioms as well (including contradictions, because i feel like it)

i would tell you to kys but you already committed epistemic suicide :)

[Anonymous No.10175216]

>>10175123
>all my feelings
>My
*Our feelings collectively expressed in an objective manner

>When he can't into modality
Just further proof that you can't satisfy women

[Anonymous No.10175236]

>>10175216
you surely know that feelings (or intuitions) aren't uniform across all of mankind, they're derived from human nature which is subjective and subject to change between person to person, so what's the threshold where enough people have the same intuitions to decide that it could be axiomatically accepted as self evident?

you're also presupposing an external reality and minds other than yours to justify your axioms, but how do you know they exist in the first place? this is like using neuroscience to prove you aren't a brain in a vat, because you discovered that brains can't survive in vats.

>>When he can't into modality
stop bullying me ;_;

[Anonymous No.10175254]

>>10174804
You do realize intermittent motivation or clarity is exactly what Nietzsche is saying is the problem? As in, the very thing making you a lowly person. You don't care until you always care while episodes serve stagnation. If you play at and hope for redemption, you are beyond redemption.

[Anonymous No.10175344]

>"Only good has any depth. Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension yet - and this is it's horror - it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth and lay waste the entire world. Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil."

[Anonymous No.10175367]

>>10174556
>logos = truth more or less
>in the beginning there was the truth, and the truth was with god, and the truth was god
Holy fucking shit dude I kinda get it a little now

[Anonymous No.10175374]

>>10174655
>meat the love of your life

[Anonymous No.10176094]

>>10173387
there is a bible in the drawer to keep you from sinning. there is a lock on the window to keep you from jumping. there is a black cloud in the sky to keep you from winning, but there are drinks on the house, so here is to new beginnings.

[Anonymous No.10176128]

>Beatitude through suffering is an illusion, since it requires a reconciliation to the fatality of pain in order to avoid total annihilation.

[Anonymous No.10176139]

>>10173387
"Procrastination is not only the theif of time, its the theif of lives"

[Anonymous No.10176153]

>>10174592
gottem

[Anonymous No.10176319]

[Anonymous No.10176322]

>>10175367
nah. logos can mean story, word, reasoning, speech...not truth. truth is more like the word alethia.

[Anonymous No.10176331]

>Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
Friedrich Schiller

>Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating
Simone Weil

[Anonymous No.10176341]

"Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary"

[Anonymous No.10176361]

>>10174676
>>10174702
>>10174711
>>10174791
>>10174818
>>10176153
Samefag.

[Anonymous No.10176515]

'In conditions of peace, the warlike man attacks himself.

[Anonymous No.10176556]

>>10174513
Cuidado con el borde

[Anonymous No.10176584]

I can't remember the words exactly, but it's completely changed how I confront problems. The idea is: If you can change something, do so; Otherwise, there is no point in getting anxious. Call it simplistic, but it blew my mind when I first learned it, and continues to do so even now. When coupled with analytical thinking skills, you're basically equipped for anything life throws at you.

>>10176331
Nice picks.

[Anonymous No.10176595]

>>10176331
I liked these.

[Anonymous No.10176607]

"The act is virgin, even repeated."

[Anonymous No.10176632]

>>10173472
What was that "active love"? I've read Bros K but don't remember that

[Anonymous No.10176639]

You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world -- that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature -- but perhaps that withdrawal is the only suffering you might be able to avoid.

[Anonymous No.10177146]

>>10176584
Sounds like Epictetus, though he means a bit more than this it's sorta the gist
"... if it relates to anything that's not in our power be ready to reply in turn 'you are nothing to me'"

[Anonymous No.10177180]

>>10176319
From which chapter is this from?
I don't remember it.

[Anonymous No.10177193]

>>10173446
Veteran dynamite

[Anonymous No.10177194]

>>10174655
curious: was the mistyping of "meat" for "meet" intentional for comic effect or are you really just that dumb?

[Anonymous No.10177206]

>>10173387
"Choose a job you love and you will never work a day of your life." -Confucius

[Anonymous No.10177224]

>>10174513

[Anonymous No.10177241]

>>10176515
how do i use this against someone

[Anonymous No.10177248]

Stop being a bitch ass nigga. Thus spoke Zarathustra.- Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.10177344]

>>10177180
http://www.bartleby.com/318/44.html

line 100

[Anonymous No.10177455]

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

[Anonymous No.10177459]

Does anyone bathe in a mighty little time? Don't say that he does it ill, but in a mighty little time. Does anyone drink a great quantity of wine? Don't say that he does ill, but that he drinks a great quantity. For, unless you perfectly understand the principle from which anyone acts, how should you know if he acts ill? Thus you will not run the hazard of assenting to any appearances but such as you fully comprehend.

[Anonymous No.10177465]

>The secret of being a bore is to tell everything

-Voltaire

[Anonymous No.10177478]

>>10175216
>>10175074
I don't see how feelings could be generated without being in response to an initial event, and if they're born of that then surely that makes them ad hoc in the first instance at least.

I find it odd that someone who sounds like a denizen of Mt. Rectitude feels the need to couch something they apparently regards as self-evident in memes and personal attacks.

>inb4 bants

[Anonymous No.10177490]

>>10173387
"It's not your present circumstances which count, but the circumstances you make your mind to achieve that are important" ~ Earl Nightingale

[Anonymous No.10178033]

>>10177465
Nice

[Anonymous No.10178132]

>"I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too."
This isn't much of an epigram, but gives me goosebumps whenever I read it:
>Buoyed up by that coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirgelike main. The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
And finally:
>“You see there’s leaders, and there’s followers, but I’d rather be a dick than a swallower”

[Anonymous No.10178353]

"She got a big booty so I call her big booty." -2 Chainz

[Anonymous No.10178553]

>>10178353
What type of axiom is this built off of

[Anonymous No.10179251]

upon a golden HOBBY HORSE which-if you'll allow me, dear friend- rocked to and fro in such a peculiar motion to the posterior and anterior, that there was, by the by, not so much an infefior motion in the entire house- quoth my brother Dicksucker-which postualted a great throbbing MEMBER, which upon the papal HOBBYHORSE, did postualte to and fro in a most odd, italiante, giacomo-ite manner, dear reader


laurence sterne

[Anonymous No.10179257]

"Do you read sutter cane?"

[Anonymous No.10180488]

>>10175367
logos is the root word of logic
so i would say its more like reason,articulated knowledge,speech,abstraction

[Anonymous No.10182303]

Animals, are pure beings. Human beings, are pure animals.

[Anonymous No.10182320]

>>10173472
The scene where he comforts the grieving mother, I tear up even thinking about it.

[Anonymous No.10182328]

..the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and would be as valid in a year or in 10 years or, with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always...

[Anonymous No.10183637]

>>10173387
"It is like a finger pointing to the Moon, do not focus on the finger or you will miss all of the Heavenly Glory."

[Anonymous No.10183745]

>>10174513
Todos morimos solos, vivimos juntos pero morimos solos.

[Anonymous No.10183788]

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

[Anonymous No.10183844]

>>10174592
kek

[Anonymous No.10183857]

>>10173387
'The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.' - Marcus Aurelius

[Anonymous No.10183864]

>>10173560
>without an axiom (as Godel proved)
holy...why don't people understand Godel?

[Anonymous No.10183908]

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller

[Anonymous No.10184047]

>>10175344
I think I've never read anything that reasonated less with me in my entire life.

[Anonymous No.10184051]

>>10177241
He's saying that a man without an outlet to release his anger will destroy himself out of lack of a more worthy target.

Basically, get a hobby or join the military, and kick ass if your will commands it.

[Anonymous No.10184054]

>>10173387
"And no wonder you people need saving, similar to the wagon whose wheels have broken down in the meandering mountain path, you christcucks resort to the modern version of smoke signals to call for help, in the current year theae take the form of your moral grandstanding, condemning those who desire, those who with hard work temper their character to see their wills manifest before their eyes, going so far as to call this worthy quest nothing but “greed", "lust" or even "gut urges”.

I find it funny in a very sublime way, so much so that I can’t help but to chuckle at it. And is to these very same people who are convinced of their holy purpose, more compelled that any other to prove their virtues that I say, than even after creating the aggregated sum of all the kindness they have bestowed onto strangers by following the gospel of their holy book, they still fall short and simply cannot compare to the absolute bliss I’m able to provide to a girl in a night of frivolous pursuit. With a single swift thrust of my hips, their entire lives up to that point validated; my meat rod falls upon them, striking their soft flesh like the whip of the very same Martin Luther during his daily session of self-flagellation, and much like the pain freed him from the guilt of his past sins, the pleasure of my instrument quickly wipes away their feelings of shame and self-loathing."

- Some anon on /r9k/.

[Anonymous No.10184100]

Why should the race always be to the swift, or the Jumble to the quick-witted? Should they be allowed to win merely because of the gifts God gave them?
Well I say, "Cheating is the gift man gives himself." - Max Stirner

[Anonymous No.10184283]

>a single quote changing your life and/or thinking forever
shiggy diggy brainlets

[Anonymous No.10184303]

>>10177459
Epictetus. Nice.

[Anonymous No.10184305]

>>10184100
How come he didn't cheat his way out of abject powerty?

[Anonymous No.10184312]

>>10176639
I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.10184314]

This

[Anonymous No.10184440]

>>10178353

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names

[Anonymous No.10184614]

Sacred things excist only for the egoist who doesn't recognize himself, the involuntary egoist, for the one who is always out for his own, and yet does not consider himself the highest essence, who only serves himself and at the same time always thinks of serving a higher being, who knows nothing higher than himself and yet is crazy about something higher; in short, for the egoist who doesn't want to be an egoist, and degrades himself, i.e., fights for his egoism, but at the same time degrades himself so that he will "be exalted," and thus gratify his egoism. Because he wants to stop being an egoist, he looks about in heaven and earth for higher beings that he can serve and sacrifice himself to; but however much he shakes and chastises himself, in the end he does everything for his own sake, and the disreputable egoism never gives way in him. This is why I call him an involuntary egoist.

His effort and care to get away from himself are nothing but the misunderstood drive for self-dissolution. If you are bound to your last hour, if you must babble today as you did yesterday, if you can't transform yourself in every instant, you feel yourself in slave's shackels and frozen. This is why, beyond each moment of your excistence, a fresh moment of the future beckons to you, and developing yourself, you get away "from yourself," i.e., from your current self. As you are in each moment, you are your own creation, and now in this "creation," you don't want to lose yourself, the creator. You are yourself a higher essence than you are, and you outdo yourself. But that you are the one who is higher than you, i.e., that your are not mere creation, but likewise your own creator, this you fail to recognize as an involuntary egoist; and so the "higher essence" is for you an alien thing. Every higher essence, like truth, humanity, etc., is an essence over us.

[Anonymous No.10184744]

>>10174655
make sure they never meat again like goddamn vegans?

[Anonymous No.10184754]

>>10176632

Active love as opposed to dreamy love (love for humankind) is helping the people around you, the poor and the sick and the rest. Washing their feet, figuratively, sometimes literally. Caring for the leper instead of visioning world peace.

[Anonymous No.10184930]

>>10173387
it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

[Anonymous No.10184966]

>>10173387
Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.

And also:
Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.

I actually have to thank /lit/ for reading Ecclesiastes. That was a dark moment in my life and I remember someone mentioning that it helped them in their hour of need.

[Anonymous No.10184977]

>>10175216
>>When he can't into modality
"If you won't do something, you can't"

[Anonymous No.10185050]

The entire work solidifies in me what I desire when I begin to overreach. These two quotes are just mission statements of a sort, but easy to affix to situations where the glut of information does you no good.

"Scepticism is an ability to set out oppositions among things which appear and are thought of in any way at all, an ability by which, because of the equipollence in the opposed objects and accounts, we come first to suspension of judgement and afterwards to tranquillity."

"The causal principle of scepticism we say is the hope of becoming tranquil. Men of talent, troubled by the anomaly in things and puzzled as to which of them they should rather assent to, came to investigate what in things is true and what false, thinking that by deciding these issues they would become tranquil.
The Chief constitutive principle of scepticism is the claim that to every account an equal account is opposed; for it is from this, we think, that we come to hold no beliefs."

[Anonymous No.10185119]

Solitude is like a thick coat. However, even with it on, it can't put an end to a cold heart.

[Anonymous No.10185128]

"Don't lead me, as I may not follow. Don't walk behind me as I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus

Or

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"

[Anonymous No.10185423]

>>10176331
>>10177465
A+

Some that I've liked
>Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
>I just season simple food with hunger.
>If you are more fortunate than others build a longer table, not a taller fence.
>If you work faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
>It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Of course my life is rarely in alignment with all of these messages but I try to use them as guidance.

[Anonymous No.10185469]

>and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.

[Anonymous No.10185475]

>>10173387

[Anonymous No.10185511]

>>10176331
what does Schiller's quote mean?

[Anonymous No.10185674]

>>10185511
Don't behold yourself to the current landscape's norms is what I believe it means.

[Anonymous No.10185735]

Mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist
Of the wormlike tips
Of tentacles expanding in my mind
I'm fine
Accepting only fresh brine
You can get another drop of this
Yeah you wish

Truly the greatest poets of our time.

[Anonymous No.10185748]

>>10173387
All agents defect.
All resisters sell out.

[Anonymous No.10185755]

>>10173387
"Before you try to change the world, clean up your room."

He gets alot of shit but I love Jordan Peterson.

[Anonymous No.10186185]

>>10174655
>Meat the love of your life
Like in a car accident? You sick fuck

[Anonymous No.10186224]

the meaning of life, is not to live. It´s to see death into his eyes. Shake his hand and welcome him in. Come, go on, want some coffee? Therefore take his hat and coat. while the coffee is cooled enough to drink, our time is out and its time to leave.
meningen med livet är inte att leva, utan att se döden i vittögat. Skaka hans hand och hälsa han välkomen. Kom, stig in, vill du ha kaffe? Därefter ta hans hatt och rock. Undertiden kaffet har blivit svallt nog för att dricka, är vår tid ute och det är dags att gå.

[Anonymous No.10186405]

>>10177459
Grok ye E-Prime?

[Anonymous No.10186441]

"You don't know how strong you really are until being strong is all you have left."

Really made me think.

[Anonymous No.10186510]

"Re-reading is probably more important than reading. Seek to cognitively *own* a great book rather than just *reading* it." Munger

[Anonymous No.10186884]

>>10173387

>"Nobody needs you and you will never find the life you long for anywhere."

So viscerally true, in my case, that as soon as I heard it I was tempted to kill myself.

[Anonymous No.10186918]

Dalenda est Carthago

[Anonymous No.10186957]

"God is dead." - Niche

[Anonymous No.10186964]

>>10173387
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

[Anonymous No.10186969]

>>10186918
Is this meant to make me mad. Am I being rused

[Anonymous No.10186971]

>>10186969
Bon appetit Escargot

[Anonymous No.10186981]

>The lazy work twice as hard
~Based Cuban Grandma

[Anonymous No.10186991]

>>10184314
Kek

[Anonymous No.10186996]

>>10186981

Animeme just blew your peasant grandma the fuck out.

[Anonymous No.10187002]

>In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

The quote that killed internet atheism.

[Anonymous No.10187009]

"just bee yourself" - /mu/

[Anonymous No.10187011]

>>10186996
Animeme just proved her point

[Anonymous No.10187015]

>One bullet is a lifetime supply.

I think about it sometimes.

[Anonymous No.10187022]

>>10182303
we're double pure, nice

[Anonymous No.10187023]

>>10174711
The judge? (who is a massive twat obvs)

[Anonymous No.10187026]

This sonnet:

When I consider how my light is spent,
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve there with my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
Doth God exact day-labor, light deny'd,
I fondly ask; But patience to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts, who best
Bear his milde yoke, they serve him best, his State
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and waite.

[Anonymous No.10187049]

Clearly nothing substantial.
But ever since age 9 I've been similar.
>T. 21 year old neet.
Something I thought then that ruin my life.
Or just assburgers.
There's this speech by a general circling the webs; "make your bed every day", pretty similar to Frogman's ''clean your room''.

[Anonymous No.10187055]

>>10185511
Ride the tiger

[Anonymous No.10187129]

>>10187055
You can see his stripes but you know he's clean

[Anonymous No.10187131]

Daily reminder

[Anonymous No.10187135]

>>10173387
“ all extremes except extreme devotion to the enemy should be encouraged “
thinking of getting it tramp stamped on me

[Anonymous No.10187336]

>the planet drifts to random insect doom

[Anonymous No.10187528]

>>10179257
Excellent film

[Anonymous No.10187553]

>>10173560
the power of the peterson poster is infinite

[Anonymous No.10187591]

>Like me who have no love which this wild rain
>Has not dissolved except the love of death,
>If love it be towards what is perfect and
>Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint.

[Anonymous No.10187765]

>>10174592
>i don't ad hoc invent axioms to support my foundational beliefs
>implying you're not doing that right now
>implying that isn't all you've ever done
>implying that isn't all you'll ever do

[Anonymous No.10187801]

>>10177455
au contraire, le style cest I'homme.

[Anonymous No.10187810]

>In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell.

[Anonymous No.10187881]

>Put a pinch of sage in your boot and all day a long a spicy scent is your reward.

Martin Prince

[Anonymous No.10187900]

There was nothing left for him, except to annihilate himself, except to smash the failure into which he had shaped his life, to throw it away, before the feet of mockingly laughing gods. This was the great vomiting he had longed for: death, the smashing to bits of the form he hated! Let him be food for fishes, this dog Siddhartha, this lunatic, this depraved and rotten body, this weakened and abused soul! Let him be food for fishes and crocodiles, let him be chopped to bits by the daemons!

[Anonymous No.10187905]

>>10175047
Based, this was my college's motto at Oxford, I really like it.

[Anonymous No.10187906]

“Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun.”

[Anonymous No.10188116]

>>10185511
burself, essentially

[Anonymous No.10188126]

'The blows that count are all landed with the left.'
-Walter Benjamin

I have a man crush on this guy

[Anonymous No.10188536]

>Feel the forms going into space
>There are no rules, only tools

[Anonymous No.10188587]

>The plants, the plants are the key to everything in my life. They have been the basis of it and they have been, ultimately, the sole purpose of everything. The plants, here, blooming around us in immensity and glory, everywhere! In the deserts, the arctic, with sand sheer upon the ground, with great flows of blue ice. They're everywhere, circling and going under the ground like veins, veins of pure beauty and being. Look around you here, we're surrounded by them and inundated by these beautiful green forms of life. To the left and to the right and to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west. But there are also insects. Have you ever read Maurice Maeterlinck's Life of the Bee? It's a glorious book. A book about the nature of the hive; the great architecture of these beings beyond death that represent an exoskeleton of life that contains no life in human form because they are reduced essentially to the matter of function. Insects. They are function. They have no false concept of individuality, they serve the whole, which is them - spiritually. Each insect is a part of a greater whole, they have one soul, headed in this case by the queen, superintended upon by slaves who nurture her in the nectar of their own milk - the egalitarian mass of people. The more I looked at these insects, the more I saw them, the more I looked at them through a magnifying glass, I wanted...I wanted to destroy them! I had a decision to make. And even as I looked at them through the magnifying glass I had the belief that I could refract the sun down, through the glass, unto them so as to destroy what was there. And it was when I looked at evolution that I came to the decision upon which my entire life has been based hitherto; that's too destructive, keep the insects to harvest the plants.

[Anonymous No.10188846]

>>10176139
>posting this on 4chan

[Anonymous No.10188900]

>>10173387
"My greatest fear in life is not being worthy of my suffering"

[Anonymous No.10188931]

>>10174573
t. Autist

[Anonymous No.10188933]

>>10176139
>literally quoting a self-help author
lmao wtf

[Anonymous No.10188934]

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression."

[Anonymous No.10188965]

>>10173387
None. It doesn't matter how moving or beautiful the idea or sentiment. I don't change I certainly don't improve. I've read all of the big names, Dostoevsky, Seneca, Shakespeare, Joyce, Kafka, Melville, etc...They made me feel that I could be different, briefly. For a shining moment or two I could believe. But I am the same as ever, a sulking and worthless failure of a man. I don't read anymore, there's no practicality in it.

[Anonymous No.10189100]

>>10187129
Oh, don't you see what I mean?

[Anonymous No.10189151]

>>10185735
OCEAN MAN

[Anonymous No.10189172]

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

[Anonymous No.10189180]

>It's almost impossible, in real life, for any of us to understand how a single emotion can be so defining; it's the stuff of movies, and we prefer to define ourselves rather than wait for events to shape us.
>And it's not boredom, either-- what, is masturbation so exciting?

[Anonymous No.10189214]

Behold

[Anonymous No.10189225]

>>10189214
cringe

[Anonymous No.10189228]

>In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man,1943

[Anonymous No.10189239]

>>10189214
>Implying the glorious Mediterranean masterrace is w*ite
lol fuck off you angloamerican subhuman

[Anonymous No.10189242]

>>10189214
Imagine actually being the person who wrote this

[Anonymous No.10189246]

>>10184754
sounds like cuck shit

[Anonymous No.10189251]

Only through pain and suffering can the guilty be redeemed.

[Anonymous No.10189252]

More Lewis

[Anonymous No.10189275]

“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die”

- Dorothy Leigh Sayers

[Anonymous No.10189294]

>>10175344
>

[Anonymous No.10189299]

>>10189275
>Dorothy Leigh Sayers
are you having a giggle
>On a line-by-line basis, Sayers's translation can seem idiosyncratic. For example, the famous line usually rendered "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" turns, in the Sayers translation, into "Lay down all hope, you who go in by me."

[Anonymous No.10189328]

>>10189275
This really hits close to home. I cannot bring myself to care about anything and it's quite a painful state of being.

[Anonymous No.10189603]

>>10188965
and what do you do?

[Anonymous No.10189658]

>>10173387
Become worthy.
Accept power.
Rule.

[Anonymous No.10189772]

>>10189603
decay

[Anonymous No.10190281]

>>10177194
>posts vapormeme
>calls others dumb

[Anonymous No.10190571]

>>10189214
literally 'we wuz kings and shit'

[Anonymous No.10192274]

suc
ces
s

[Anonymous No.10192345]

Hand-drumming and bowl cuts spinning at 35km/h. Sweat in my eyes
stings my burned-off retinas. I ignored the warning at the beginning of
the Chinese cartoon and watched too close in an unlit room.
Reverberations originating from the inner left corner of the throat. Metal
strings drawn out until you could spell the feedback. There's no discs to be
jockeyed. Everyone went back to actual instruments but the ensemble is
tone deaf and rhythm ignorant. Electric sitars and double-necked ouds.
All the lights were cancelled but there's plenty of lasers and steam.
People just sort of move and toss limbs and maybe hump one another.
The man in a keffiyeh says something every other beat. Then he claps.
We clap. I clap around a girl. Still dancing, she moves my arms up
calmly. The lads thought it was premium banter. Neon ``smoking
encouraged'' signs. ``If you die it's your fault for not buying the best
lungs'' disclaimer.
I went backstage to meet the sheikh. He asked if I wanted to smoke
blends of course I said yes. Legs perpendicular on an exported rug. All
shoes off to not get it dirty, please. Hashish and dhoka and shisha out of
a hookah. Stem in the shape of a metallic fish engulfing a golden
giraffe. No one was allowed to show their face, so they suggested
through dance. He thought it would be funny to bring out a sword. She
freaked out and took her phone out to start filming. He cut her hand off
for stealing the moment.

[Anonymous No.10192447]

Every person who has ever lived is "I" in the same sense that you are

[Anonymous No.10193704]

>A drowning man knows not the ocean's vastness, only its depth

[Anonymous No.10194002]

>>10189246

This tbqh. Russian literature is full of cuckoldry because 19th century Russians were super butthurt about class struggle and their shitty weather.

[Anonymous No.10194020]

>>10174655
>meat the love of your life
>meat someone else
Oh man did this make me laugh like nothing else on /lit/ ever has.

[Anonymous No.10194317]

When somebody discovers their love is requited, it really should temper
their feelings for their beloved. “What? This person is unassuming enough
to love even you? Or stupid enough? Or – or – ”

What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.10194362]

>>10173387
"You're gonna make enemies in life whether you want it or not, so it's better to pick them. Then you can pick your enemies in a way that you also make friends."

- Me

It's just a maxim I thought up of after being a people-pleaser for so long. I try to avoid conflict but it's not worth it, it kills your soul. I'm not trying to say this is original or anything, after all, great minds think alike so someone must've said the gist of this in the past.

[Anonymous No.10194511]

>>10176331
fuck yeah

[Anonymous No.10194544]

>>10188126
can you explain this?

does it mean you'll only win if you can succeed where you're weak, too?

[Anonymous No.10194578]

"Gosto não se discute – dizia a velha comendo sabão pensando que era queijo."

[Anonymous No.10194991]

>>10194544
youll win if you catch them off guard ;)

[Anonymous No.10196510]

>>10173560

Faith yes. But faith in GOD ? Why GOD though ? Why not faith in yourself ?

[Anonymous No.10196523]

I actually shed a tear after reading this.

“Wanderer, who are you? I watch you go on your way, without scorn, without love, with impenetrable eyes - damp and downhearted, like a plumb line that returns unsatisfied from every depth back into the light (what was it looking for down there?), with a breast that does not sigh, with lips that hide their disgust, with a hand that only grips slowly: who are you? What have you done? Take a rest here, this spot is hospitable to everyone, - relax! And whoever you may be: what would you like now? What do you find relaxing? Just name it: I'll give you whatever I have! - "Relaxing? Relaxing? How inquisitive you are! What are you saying! But please, give me - -" What? What? Just say it! - "Another mask! A second mask!" ...”

[Anonymous No.10196567]

>>10189214

What I will never understand is that why can't white nationalists extend this to rest of Humanity ?

[Anonymous No.10196572]

>>10173446
Seriously? What is this from? I need to know so that I can avoid it.

[Anonymous No.10196971]

You have taken yourself too seriously.

[Anonymous No.10197006]

>>10173446
who writes like that

[Anonymous No.10197051]

Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

[Anonymous No.10197109]

>>10196567
don't they say non whites AREN'T human though?

[Anonymous No.10197169]

>>10174743
>there is a species of fish deep in the Marianas trench that has not yet been discovered
>I do not consent.
Please quote the special snowflake who said this

[Anonymous No.10197337]

>>10173387
"You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgement on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgement do the same things."

this made me realise that I was insecure and projecting that on other people. I realised that I was finding motivation to "improve" myself only based on being better than other people.

[Anonymous No.10197554]

>>10174592
Fucking 10/10

[Anonymous No.10197630]

"Placebo works even if you know it's placebo."

[Anonymous No.10197663]

>>10197337
I had a very long phase of telling myself that improving to spite those that told me I couldn't do it was a sort of life hack, that improving for the sole sake of being better than your fellow man was the ultimate force behind success, and all kinds of other edgy spins on that same mentality. Only a long time after having thought I had reached mental maturity did I take a step back, looked at my achievements and realized that none of them had to do with competing against some faceless nemesis, that the things I was proud of were all things I had done for myself. Sometimes I want to go back and tell all those people I'd preached my elitism to about how blind I was.

[Anonymous No.10197681]

>>10196523
This got me

[Anonymous No.10197719]

>>10174547
Was sagte Sie zu Diktaturen?

[Anonymous No.10197774]

>>10196523
I don't get it

[Anonymous No.10197801]

>>10173387
BBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP snnnnniiiiiiffffffffffff...oh yes my dear....sssnnnnnnnnnnnniiiiiiiiffffffff....quite pungent indeed...is that....dare I say....sssssssnniff...eggs I smell?......sniff sniff....hmmm...yes...quite so my darling....sniff....quite pungent eggs yes very much so .....ssssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnniiiiiiiffffff....ah yes...and also....a hint of....sniff....cheese.....quite wet my dear....sniff...but of yes...this will do nicely....sniff.....please my dear....another if you please....nice a big now.... BBBBBBRRRRRRRAAAAAAAPPPPPPPFFFFFFFFLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPFFFFFF Oh yes...very good!....very sloppy and wet my dear....hmmmmm...is that a drop of nugget I see on the rim?...hmmmm.....let me.....let me just have a little taste before the sniff my darling.......hmmmmm....hmm..yes....that is a delicate bit of chocolate my dear....ah yes....let me guess...curry for dinner?....oh quite right I am....aren't I?....ok....time for sniff.....sssssnnnnnnniiiiiiiiffffffff.....hmmm...hhhmmmmm I see...yes....yes indeed as well curry......hmmm....that fragrance is quite noticeable....yes.....onion and garlic chutney I take it my dear?.....hmmmmm....yes quite..... BBBBBBRRRRRRRRPPPPPPFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTT Oh I was not expecting that…that little gust my dear….you caught me off guard…yes…so gentle it was though…hmmmm…let me taste this little one…just one small sniff…..sniff…ah….ssssssnnnnnniiiiiffffffffffff…and yet…so strong…yes…the odor….sniff sniff…hmmm….is that….sniff….hmmm….I can almost taste it my dear…..yes….just…sniff….a little whiff more if you please…..ssssssnnnnnniiiiiffffffffff…ah yes I have it now….yes quite….hhhhmmmm…delectable my dear…..quite exquisite yes…..I dare say…sniff….the most pungent one yet my dear….ssssnnnnniiiifffffffffffffffffffffff….yes….

[Anonymous No.10197809]

>>10197774
It's a dialogue

“Wanderer, who are you? I watch you go on your way, without scorn, without love, with impenetrable eyes - damp and downhearted, like a plumb line that returns unsatisfied from every depth back into the light (what was it looking for down there?), with a breast that does not sigh, with lips that hide their disgust, with a hand that only grips slowly: who are you? What have you done? Take a rest here, this spot is hospitable to everyone, - relax! And whoever you may be: what would you like now? What do you find relaxing? Just name it: I'll give you whatever I have!"

"Relaxing? Relaxing? How inquisitive you are! What are you saying! But please, give me - -"

"What? What? Just say it!"

"Another mask! A second mask!"

If the problem wasn't the format I recommend you look for a connection between the wanderer's plead for a mask and the first speech.

[Anonymous No.10197821]

That one Brecht poem about a flower garden.
Another Brecht poem, that's part of "The Threepenny Opera", where the protagonist sings that a human being doesn't live from the foot he eats, but from terrorizing his surroundings, forgetting that he is a human.

Basically, the whole "One Hundred Years of Solitude", because it rings an obvious bell at the end, but it's good to be reminded of it. It's the sentence that the family won't have a second chance in life, like everyone else. The generational switch is also good, the periodical decay of the house. The parts about losing memory etc.

In Goethe's "Elective Affinities", there is a part in Ottilie diary, where she writes that in order to really get to know someone you need to go to them and see how they are doing. It made me embrace people a lot more. I got burnt in the process, but w/e.

The whole Brother's Karamazov.

Master and Margarita, basically, the devil isn't stupid. It literally does nothing if I try to discredit another person, even if he was the devil himself, it wouldn't do a single thing to help me "beat" him.

There is a part in Doctor Zhivago, it's in the first 200 pages of the book, where Zhivago and that one lady are concerned about the well being of another woman that they both know. He writes:
“So what will happen to your consciousness [after you die]? *Your* consciousness, yours, not anyone else's. Well, what are *you*? There's the point. Let's try to find out. What is it about you that you have always known as yourself? What are you conscious of in yourself? Your kidneys? Your liver? Your blood vessels? No. However far back you go in your memory, it is always in some external, active manifestation of yourself that you come across your identity--in the work of your hands, in your family, in other people. And now listen carefully. You in others--this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life--your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what now? You have always been in others and you will remain in others. And what does it matter to you if later on that is called your memory? This will be you--the you that enters the future and becomes part of it.”

In Nietzsche's Zarathustra there is that line towards the end of the book that stuck with me:
"The world is deep,:
And deeper than even day may dream." and that whole part about the sky.

"On The Road" by Jack Kerouac, fuck bitches.

The whole Fall, by Camus is great too, especially the part where Clemance says that he is going to judge himself until he transforms the "I am." to "We are.", so that he can hide himself in the masses and removing himself from the game. "Oh girl, jump into the water one more time, so that I have the chance to save us both!"

In "The Great Gatsby", in the end, there is a part where Gatsby says that he will read one book, that will improve him, every week.

And some other stuff.

[Anonymous No.10197829]

>>10197809
/lit/ pleb here. Can somebody explain something to me

I'm guessing this comes from an old book right? Why do these old texts have such long winded, flowery, ostentatious dialogue? Is that how people actually talked?

[Anonymous No.10197864]

>>10173446
are you catholic?

[Anonymous No.10197866]

>>10196510
b-but you are god, anon :)

[Anonymous No.10197873]

>>10197829
1. It's a translation, so it sounds less natural than the original
2. The original doesn't sound particularly natural either; it's by Nietzsche sometime 1890
3. It's not how people talked, but how the author decided the emotion he wanted to convey was best conveyed. That flowery-ness is him emphasising the parts flowered on, the longwindedness to emphasise, in this case, the atmosphere (Man asking a leaving wanderer to stay (?)) -- gives it a hushed and rushed feeling.

But these points you mentioned, the ostentation and longwindedness, aren't what you should focus on, those are meant to steer your attention to the actually important parts in a natural manner.
A critic might comment on these stylistic choices, but mentally evaluating an author's technique all the time isn't necessarily the best way to get the most out of a book, sometimes you're just meant to ponder.

Now wait for someone to shit on my opinion and explain it their own way and you'll be ready to form your own opinion and enter the world of /lit/

[Anonymous No.10197883]

>>10197821
What's this flower garden poem?

[Anonymous No.10197888]

>>10197829
No, people didn't talk that way. Art didn't used to attempt to merely imitate reality and so it wasn't important that dialogue sound realistic. It's a shame so many people share your attitude towards elevated writing.

[Anonymous No.10197905]

>>10197883
Beside the lake, close to the silver poplars,
hedged round by walls and bushes lies a garden:
so wisely planned to be laid out with monthly flowers
that from March till October it's in bloom.

Here in the mornings, not that often,
I sit and linger wishing
I could also always have whatever the weather,
sunny, cloudy,
something or other just as pleasant on show.

[Anonymous No.10197909]

>>10197905
Nice

[Anonymous No.10197912]

"By observing you bring it into existence" - Hindu scriptures about the nature of reality.

[Anonymous No.10197926]

[Anonymous No.10197927]

>>10197888
Correct but there's no need to be such a cunt to somebody who's just asking a question and trying to broaden their /lit/ horizons.

[Anonymous No.10197945]

>>10197927
There's nothing unnecessarily rude about his post, unlike yours.

[Anonymous No.10197953]

>>10197945
there is no need to point out and/or analyse the rudeness of the posts of other people

[Anonymous No.10197963]

>>10196572
I think its Ayn Rand talking about Christianity

[Anonymous No.10197979]

>>10197953
Now I'd say that's up for debate. Saying there's no need to point out a man's rudeness, or lack thereof, is like implying there is no fruitful discussion to be spawened from it, which I'd disagree with. One's ettiquette plays a vital role in an environment centered around conversation such as /lit/, talking about it is far from pointless.

[Anonymous No.10197984]

"a fraud, no matter how pious, is still a fraud."
made me stop being religious

[Anonymous No.10197991]

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
- Dante Alighieri

[Anonymous No.10197996]

>>10197945
>anon asks a question
>durrrr it's a shame people are so ignorant like you hurrrrrr
Fix your ego cunt

[Anonymous No.10197999]

>"Frankness is the first virtue of a deceased man, for in life, the gaze of opinion, the contrast of interests, the struggle of greed, it all compels us to hide the old rags, the tears and patches, so we don't show the rest of the world the revelations our consciousness makes."

[Anonymous No.10198007]

>>10197999
source?

[Anonymous No.10198031]

>>10197996
He answered the question and voiced an opinion, christ dude

[Anonymous No.10198049]

>you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole
>you meet assholes all day, you're the asshole
-raymond gibbons

[Anonymous No.10198086]

>>10185475
What does this mean?

[Anonymous No.10198117]

>>10198086
Something something, struggle is good

[Anonymous No.10198124]

>>10198117
You’re retarded

[Anonymous No.10198138]

>>10187131
What kind of spaz would bother to make this picture? I cant actually fathom.

[Anonymous No.10198148]

>>10198124
Please explain.

[Anonymous No.10198234]

>>10184614
Thank you anon.

[Anonymous No.10198254]

>>10173387
From fear and trembling
>"even if madness itself were to hold up the fool's costume before my eyes and I could tell from its look that it was I who was to put it on...
>"a man can still, in that last moment, concentrate his whole soul in a single glance towards the heaven from which all good gifts come, and this glance is something both he and the one he seeks understands; it means he has nevertheless remained true to his love. Then he will calmly put on the costume."

I have a hard time articulating what the passage means for me, nevertheless, it sparks emotion from myself.

[Anonymous No.10198302]

>>10173387
"Fuck a friend, you gon be solo in your coffin, bitch" - Freddie Gibbs.

[Anonymous No.10198311]

>>10198148
Herp derp, potato is good

[Anonymous No.10198348]

>>10175009
it's pretty appalling to meet a chick who is an utter slob.

[Anonymous No.10198351]

>>10196567
Because 2/3 of the rest of humanity is worthless. They'll never do anything on their own.

[Anonymous No.10198358]

>>10184754
UG Krishnamurti in da house.

[Anonymous No.10198375]

>>10198049
Describes one of my friends perfectly

[Anonymous No.10198848]

>>10177241
i'll try: in conditions of peace, man attacks himself. why would a man attack himself when it seems contrary to his nature? it might be the direct cause of the conditions of peace. but a condition of peace should by being what it promises should appease a man, not trigger him into war. so it's either a disagreement on what is war/peace, or a disagreement on his perception of condition that's leaving him in disappointment. or maybe he is already at war with peace itself, which is an end to a war. peace as an end to war, it comes necessarily after war. was our man, who, in conditions of war, content to attack, or maybe didn't feel the disapproving responsibility of the possible stop of this action, an end put at last by his consciousness himself, as a limitation of the conditions of peace? he was maybe enjoying himself. like we like to insult people here as long as there is a condition of anonimity; a free for all war, do what you must. but it must stop now, because we have names now.

but: not all men attack, but warlike men. so there are men who want war, since they are able to do war. and there must be an other weak kind of man who maybe wants to stop the war. and the means of stopping is by either making them disabled, or by prohibiting them the condition of war without which their consciousness actually dares to stop the violence. being manipulated in the purest sense.

where should we go from here to find a way to use it against someone?

[Anonymous No.10198858]

riches mean nothing if the eye is not satisfied

[Anonymous No.10199006]

>>10198007
Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas.

[Anonymous No.10199013]

>>10173387
None. If you can be swayed by a quote you're fucked in the head.

[Anonymous No.10199448]

The whole of it calls for tears.

[Anonymous No.10199831]

>>10199013
I'm pretty sure artificially forcing yourself to refuse any impact from a few concise lines hints at insecurity.
How old are you and what's your profession?

[Anonymous No.10199840]

>To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women.

[Anonymous No.10199846]

>>10173560
Sanctus...

[Anonymous No.10199851]

>>10184440
faggot

[Anonymous No.10200018]

“If you know that all visible things are a shadow and all pass away, are you not ashamed of playing with shadows and hoarding transitory things? Like a child you draw water with a bucket full of holes; do you not realize it and take it into account, my dear friend? As though there were nothing more serious than appearance and illusion, as though reality has been taken from them?” --- St. Symeon the New Theologian

“The aim of all those who live in God is to please our Lord Jesus Christ and become reconciled with God the Father through receiving the Holy Spirit, thus securing their salvation, for in this consists the salvation of every soul. If this aim and this activity is lacking, all other labour is useless and all other striving is in vain. Every path of life which does not lead to this is without profit.” --- St. Symeon the New Theologian.

[Anonymous No.10200044]

>>10200018
>all visible things are a shadow and all pass away

"Is this World not God's Creation? Has not Jesus Christ our Lord risen from the grave both Spirit and Body? Why do you dismiss the Love I can see in this Creation of His, for the Lord would not give us mere shadow and illusion to live in." --- Anon the Newer Theologian

[Anonymous No.10200047]

>>10200044
His kingdom is not of this world. John 18:36
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. John 17:16

[Anonymous No.10200052]

>>10200044
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19-21

[Anonymous No.10200065]

>>10200047
That's just a response to the mislabeling as the King of Israel

>>10200052
When I see the whole of Creation as treasure because God made it, I can't exactly hoard it
On the other hand If I seen gold coins as a treasure because humans made it, I could

[Anonymous No.10200138]

>>10198254
Kierkegaard is the man.

[Anonymous No.10200197]

>>10198302
>when a nigger attempts to communicate

[Anonymous No.10200439]

>>10185128
>quotes jesus
Nice try christofag.

[Anonymous No.10200509]

>>10174776
Corncob Tortilla YeCarthy. Are you surprised?

[Anonymous No.10200539]

>>10174743
Was that the Judge from Blood Meridian?

[Anonymous No.10201750]

>>10178553
lmao

[Anonymous No.10201767]

>>10197963
Altruism actually
>>10196572
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F5nhYo5nx4 Very last sentence.

[Anonymous No.10201926]

>>10173446
well this was written by a cult leader

[Anonymous No.10201946]

>>10173446

[Anonymous No.10201979]

>>10200539
Yes.

[Anonymous No.10202555]

"Win if you can... lose if you must... but always cheat."

[Anonymous No.10202584]

>>10174655
>meat
on fucking /lit/ of all places.

[Anonymous No.10202600]

>>10198254
This quote is making me a little misty

>>10200138
Yes

[Anonymous No.10202647]

>>10201926
>cult
>nor ask another man to live for mine
Ok kiddo

[Anonymous No.10202649]

>>10174513
Santa.. quiero mas...

[Anonymous No.10202736]

>>10173387
"Other friends have flown before, on the morrow he will leave me, as my friends have flown before" -Poe, The Raven

May not be worded exactly but regardless, it is wording which reminded me of the false hope I'll give myself despite its inevitable downfall. One which I now take with caution. One of many.

[Anonymous No.10202742]

>>10173387
Other friends have flown before, on the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before" -Poe, The Raven

May not be worded exactly but regardless, it is wording which reminded me of the false hope I'll give myself despite its inevitable downfall. One which I now take with caution. One of many.

[Anonymous No.10202831]

>>10189772

Well that's just fucking depressing, thanks for the most insightful posts I've ever read on this useless website

[Anonymous No.10202836]

>>10174655
Sounds like something John Green would write.

[Anonymous No.10202879]

>>10174655

> meat

Is this an elaborate ruse? It must be... Is this postmodern trolling? Are people this elaborate? I'm scared...

[Anonymous No.10203028]

"The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly."

[Anonymous No.10203049]

"Padre, cuando me entierren, esparce sobre mi tumba migajas de pan para que acudan los gorriones y canten y los oiga, y no esté solo."

[Anonymous No.10203101]

>He who despises himself also esteems himself thereby, as a despiser.
Freddy Nietzsche.

[Anonymous No.10203113]

[Anonymous No.10203126]

"Sometimes, it really do be that way"

[Anonymous No.10203204]

>>10188965

Don't you see madman? That was the entire point of reading all you've read, the point was for you to come to this exact conclusion.

I pity those who will embark on this reading trail down the rabbit hole only to be where you are at...

[Anonymous No.10204104]

>>10188965
>>10203204
You both are NEAR the end of the rabbit hole at the final threshold for now you know .
Now i say to you go and be that which is lacking in the world love,strength,virtue,compassion,care but most importantly hope .
And when doubt,fear,tiredness strike you remember that not only thou are stricken by these forces.
Find hope that maybe for at least a single moment you could hold a shield another against these forces.
For now you are uniquely prepared for this final purpose.

[Anonymous No.10204151]

>>10185050
cool big words

[Anonymous No.10204153]

>>10173387
If I die at least I'll die walking

[Anonymous No.10204163]

>>10192447
shit

[Anonymous No.10204167]

>>10193704
>>10193704
dis quote is dope as shit my anon

[Anonymous No.10204214]

>>10173554
lets play spot the communist

[Anonymous No.10204267]

[Anonymous No.10204268]

>>10198848
first off read >>10184051
second off, good job overanalysing

[Anonymous No.10204667]

>>10173387
What stands in the way becomes the way.

[Anonymous No.10204679]

>>10173446
Fpbp

[Anonymous No.10204692]

>>10174592
>t.

[Anonymous No.10204716]

>>10173387
>Voll verdienst, doch dichterisch wohnet der Mensch auf dieser Erde

[Anonymous No.10204753]

>>10188536
Is this...?

[Anonymous No.10204987]

>>10188965
Can I use your post as my quote for this thread?

[Anonymous No.10205041]

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."

Karl Marx, 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

I'm not a card-carrying Marxist, but Marx's analysis of history seems so down-to-earth and self-evident that you can't help but admire the clarity of his thought.

[Anonymous No.10205113]

>>10205041
>dude history happened before you were born lmao
You don't say

[Anonymous No.10205124]

>>10205041
>The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
Why do these fucking hacks think that describing everything as some horrible nightmare makes them sound deep and profound

No wonder Marxists are so retarded. This is their hero.

[Anonymous No.10205225]

>>10198302

wassup felix

[Anonymous No.10205245]

>>10184744
Good song

[Anonymous No.10205551]

>>10173387
"wubba lubba dub dub" this makes me think of how retarded humans can get

[Anonymous No.10205719]

The couple is like the final stage of the great social debacle. It’s the oasis in the middle of the human desert. Under the auspices of “intimacy,” we come to it looking for everything that has so obviously deserted contemporary social relations: warmth, simplicity, truth, a life without theater or spectator. But once the romantic high has passed, “intimacy” strips itself bare: it is itself a social invention, it
speaksthelanguageofglamourmagazinesandpsychology;likeeverythingelse,itisbolsteredwithso
many strategies to the point of nausea. There is no more truth here than elsewhere; here too lies and the laws of estrangement dominate. And when, by good fortune, one discovers this truth, it demands a sharing that belies the very form of the couple. What allows beings to love each other is also what makes them lovable, and ruins the utopia of autism-for-two.

[Anonymous No.10206756]

>>10184054
This is not what Christians believe, it is what atheists think they believe. It's a caricature.

[Anonymous No.10206767]

>>10174518
>implying axioms are whimsical and arbitrary
Aren't axioms, as understood through the human, most definitely whimsical and arbitrary.