/lit/ - Literature

>>23230620
>tranny is a hegel and nietzsche reader
top kek!

>>23151133
Based

>>23104954
Thanks, anon

>>22639345
Yes. And that's what makes him so kino

>There are zero (zero) pessimistic women philosophers
makes you think huh?

> TFW neet with no aspirations
> all I like to do is go on long walks with my dog while listening to music
> realize I’m living Schopenhauer ideal life

>>18642466
>tmw you realize that the most fun to be had is to become a saint

Fourfold Root of Insufficient Ground.

>>16960828
>and throws the highly sympathetic gay disabled man down the stairs in his wheelchair.

>>16762286
There is literally nothing wrong with this.

Tell me anons, what comes after the Greeks.

Loneliness is the ultimate sign of separation from God.

>>16631932
>hasn't read the Neoplatonists
A thing is greater that the sum of qualities of the whole. That it is a transcendent quality above every other descriptor. For all the descriptors can remain without it even being a One there, for identity is not inherent in bodies, this stone is only a single particular as long as we agree to that's thingness, take us away and the identity of all things goes with us.

>This is nowhere so much the case as in learning ancient languages, for the differences they present in their mode of expression as compared with modern languages is greater than can be found amongst modern languages as compared with one another. This is shown by the fact that in translating into Latin, recourse must be had to quite other turns of phrase than are used in the original. The thought that is to be translated has to be melted down and recast; in other words, it must be analyzed and then recomposed. It is just this process which makes the study of the ancient languages contribute so much to the education of the mind.

Is it possible? To make this /lit/, recommend don't-kys philosophy ig.

>>16480067
>To be entirely ignorant of the Latin language is like being in a fine country on a misty day. The horizon is extremely limited. Nothing can be seen clearly except that which is quite close; a few steps beyond, everything is buried in obscurity. But the Latinist has a wide view, embracing modern times, the Middle Age and Antiquity; and his mental horizon is still further enlarged if he studies Greek or even Sanscrit.

>If a man knows no Latin, he belongs to the vulgar, even though he be a great virtuoso on the electrical machine and have the base of hydrofluoric acid in his crucible.

>There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your hand, be it only for half an hour, and you will feel yourself refreshed, relieved, purified, ennobled, strengthened; just as if you had quenched your thirst at some pure spring. Is this the effect of the old language and its perfect expression, or is it the greatness of the minds whose works remain unharmed and unweakened by the lapse of a thousand years? Perhaps both together. But this I know. If the threatened calamity should ever come, and the ancient languages cease to be taught, a new literature shall arise, of such barbarous, shallow and worthless stuff as never was seen before.

>>16429023
>>16428997
VGH i forgot the pic

"Music … stands quite apart from all the [other arts]. In it we do not recognize the copy, the repetition, of any Idea of the inner nature of the world. Yet it is such a great and exceedingly fine art, its effect on man’s innermost nature is so powerful, and it is so completely and profoundly understood by him in his innermost being as an entirely universal language, whose distinctness surpasses even that of the world of perception itself, that in it we certainly have to look for more than that exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi [“an unconscious exercise in arithmetic in which the mind does not know it is counting”] which Leibniz took it to be… We must attribute to music a far more serious and profound significance that refers to the innermost being of the world and of our own self."

Through MADNESS

>>14782193
>he was an atheist

Cause and effect does not exist in the world for there are no objects in the world. Object is an immanent phenomenon produced by the mind in its projected recognition of the eternal forms in formless matter.
The world is a confused fade, pure becoming, non-being.

>>13984299
>"With Plotinus there even appears, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, idealism that had long been current in the East even at that time, for it taught (Enneads, iii, lib. vii, c.10) that the soul has made the world by stepping from eternity into time, with the explanation: 'For there is for this universe no other place than the soul or mind', indeed the ideality of time is expressed in the words: 'We should not accept time outside the soul or mind'."

>>13576334

>The World as Chill and Recreation