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How did they know?

>> No.15609646

Many more than just them have known for a long time.

>> No.15609695
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because life cannot be pointless forever

>> No.15610046

The french are a frivolous people

>> No.15610056

>>15610046
Cope

>> No.15610127

>>15610046
>>15610056
>We must be thankful to the civilizations which have not taken an overdose of seriousness, which have played with values and taken their pleasure in begetting and destroying them. Who knows, outside of the Greek and French civilizations, a more lucidly facetious proof of the elegant nothingness of things? The age of Alcibiades and the eighteenth century in France are two sources of consolation. While it is only at their final stages, at the dissolution of a whole system of behavior and belief, that the other civilizations could enjoy that lively exercise which lends a flavor of futility to life, it was in full ripeness, in full possession of their powers and of the future that these two epochs knew the tedium heedless of everything and permeable to everything.

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>>15610127
Is that Nietzsche?

>> No.15610372

>>15610227
Cioran

>> No.15610374

>>15610056
>>15610227
Cioran it looks like and I just don't really buy it. Generally speaking, because obviously we are, the French are if anything very self-serious. So are the Germans and the Brits to a lesser extent but they have neither the industry and depth of the Germans nor the irony and practicality of the Brits. A titular formalism which wants to be taken seriously. Look at the French garden, the philosophy of Sartre, or the films of Godard. (Godard can be fun at least)

>> No.15610418

>>15610374
He's not wrong about the 18th century imo, writers in that time were often very lighthearted. Stendhal, who was raised in the value of that century is one of the last and most shining examples of it. Montesquieu is a very clear and earlier example.
You're right however about the contemporary French. I think all the wars with Germany plus the loss of their central role in the world stage soured them.