/lit/ - Literature

>>13045512
>being this this-worldly

mate

>>11868141
>Utopian optimism is depressing and ruthless. I remember for instance my encounter with Teilhard de Chardin. He was babbling enthusiastically on the cosmic evolution toward Christ, the Omega point, etc. I finally asked him what he thought of human suffering. 'Pain and suffering,' he said, 'are simply accidents of evolution.' I left at once, indignant, refusing to converse with someone so mentally defective.

>>11566820
>systematic philosophy

pls no

>>11270047
*quickly zips up fly*

Ho--h-hhow did you get in here?

>>11077153
Anything that people share "means so much". It says nothing about the thing shared but about the lack of meaningful connection that anyone has today.

>>10567633
Accepting that there's no such thing

>>10524119
>You have no right to complain about the world if you happen to live in privilege and comfort

>>10185371
>implying people shouldn't be controlled

*pulls up with a tyre screech behind you*

Get in nigga, we about to destroy liberalism an' shit

>>10088678
>believing in science

As much as I love him, I'm not sure how he qualifies as a philosopher. He literally comes up with no new ideas.

The best argument against humanity is a five-minute conversation with the average human.

>>10044980
>not doing both

A few of his aphorisms have been arranged here. Some of them are really good.

http://www.fraglit.com/impassioned/quotations/aphorisms/cioran-p.htm#1

>"Fear is the antidote to boredom:
the remedy must be stronger than the disease."