/lit/ - Literature

Happiness that you get from "Getting a girl" is fleeting and short. You'll be passing most of your time bickering, and it'll go to waste.
The reason you pursue that goal -that you otherwise wouldn't if you were even a bit more rational- is because of something we call the "Will to Life", which is a force that even the smartest individuals suffered from
Acknowledging that will and overcoming it will be what brings calm to your mind. If you end up in solitude and like it, great! If you don't, then you're so shitty of a person that you cannot handle staying alone with your own self.

Modern incels are a problem simply because their mental fortitude is flimsy. Otherwise they'd find peace and freedom in their solitude.

If the GOAT said Hegel sucks then that means Hegel sucks

>>23240822
>we must banish the dark impression of that nothingness which we discern behind all virtue and holiness as their final goal, and which we fear as children fear the dark; we must not even evade it like the Indians, through myths and meaningless words, such as reabsorption in Brahma or the Nirvana of the Buddhists. Rather do we freely acknowledge that what remains after the entire abolition of will is for all those who are still full of will certainly nothing; but, conversely, to those in whom the will has turned and has denied itself, this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky-ways—is nothing.

I just realized, even so called intelligent women use it all as a mask. I met a girl who was studying classical literature and at first she seemed intelligent but I realized after a while it was all just name drops and flexing to impress me. There was no depth of appreciation. Now she's dropped the whole pretense of intellectualism and became like any other hoe. Schopenhauer was right.

who is better? the guy is something else. it's been years I still turn to quotes and passages from him I wrote down in my notebook to find solace. when someone says "thinker" this is who I think of. there is so much personality to him as an author. why no one else could do it like the way he did it?

>life is… le bad

life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom

>>23115109
flat-headed insipid charlatan is wrong again. a good piece of music is infinitely more satisfying and meaningful than any philosophical fragment. but it makes sense that the philosophy salesman puffs up his own trade, he is in the business of making a buck and earning a spot in the history not professing truth.

life bad, poodle good.

Who has been your most cathartic read?

What influence did Schopenhauer have on your life so far?

>>22986913

>If we were to conduct the most hardened and callous optimist through hospitals, infirmaries, operating theatres, through prisons, torture-chambers, and slave hovels, over battlefields and to places of execution; if we were to open to him all the dark abodes of misery, where it shuns the gaze of cold curiosity, and finally were to allow him to glance into the dungeon of Ugolino where prisoners starved to death, he too would certainly see in the end what kind of a world is this meilleur des mondes possible ["best of possible worlds"].

>read schopenhauer
>says "object in itself" is impossible
>read Kant
>"object in itself" makes perfect sense if the intellect cognizing it also created it
>Read Schopenhauer
>says Kant misused the term "Noumena"
>Read Kant
>Makes perfect sense since noumena specifically things in themselves created through an intellect rather than generic things in themselves
I don't get it, was he stupid?

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the earliest proponents of a theory presenting a hierarchical racial model of history, attributing civilisational primacy to the "white races" who gained their sensitivity and intelligence by refinement in the rigorous north.

The highest civilisation and culture, apart from the Ancient Indians and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races; and even with many dark peoples, the ruling caste or race is fairer in colour than the rest and has, therefore, evidently immigrated, for example, the Brahmins, the Incas, and the rulers of the South Sea Islands. All this is because necessity is the mother of invention because those tribes that emigrated early to the north and there gradually became white, had to develop all their intellectual powers and invent and perfect all the arts in their struggle with need, want and misery, which in their many forms were brought about by the climate. This they had to do in order to make up for the parsimony of nature and out of it all came their high civilisation.
Despite this, he was adamantly against differing treatment of races, was fervently anti-slavery, supporting the abolitionist movement in the United States. He describes the treatment of "[our] innocent black brothers whom force and injustice have delivered into [the slave master's] devilish clutches" as "belonging to the blackest pages of mankind's criminal record".

Hans Frank, Hitler's personal lawyer, stated that Hitler carried a copy of Schopenhauer's book The World as Will and Representation with him wherever he went throughout World War I.

>Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.
Schopenhauer(PBUH) has decided music is the superior form of arts. even though he wrote, and read plenty, he decided in favor of music and not literature. I agree with him because I love music so much, do you?

Schopenhauer and Nietzsche are the 2 greatest misunderstood and underrated heroes in the history of humanity. The mentally retarded philosophical tradition of Hegel and Marx destroyed the fucking world. If the academy had listened to them at the time, the world wouldn't be the SHIT we live in today

What are the prerequirements to understand Schopie (PBUH)?

>There is only one inborn erroneous notion … that we exist in order to be happy … So long as we persist in this inborn error … the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence … hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

>>22784102
>When someone is taking on a task you perceive as impossible, do not stop them, do not let the limits that you believe in impose on others self-beliefs.

>Let us protest and let us be angry, let us be indignant or let us be enthusiastic. Schopenhauer has marked humanity with the seal of his disdain and of his disenchantment. A disabused pleasure seeker, he overthrew beliefs, hopes, poetic ideals, and chimeras, destroyed the aspirations, ravaged the confidence of souls, killed love, dragged down the chivalrous worship of woman, crushed the illusions of hearts, and accomplished the most gigantic task ever attempted by skepticism. He passed over everything with his mocking spirit and left everything empty. And even today those who execrate him seem to carry portions of his thought, in spite of themselves, in their own souls.

>t. Guy de Maupassant

ironically, even all of his critics think the way he does. For all of those who have not yet read Schopenhauer because some retards advised you otherwise, saying that Schopenhauer was an "incel", pay them no heed and just read his work. You're welcome.

Schopenhauer and Mill are both in the intellectual league of people who are extremely well read, who are not normies, and even have some original contributions, but who still lack the real genius of the great philosophers. The only difference is that Mill KNOWS he isn't a genius, because he believed that the only thing which separated him from the average person was the superior education given to him by his father. Schopenhauer, on the other hand, as a raging egotist who thinks he solves philosophy. The only reason Schopenhauer seems to be a superior philosopher is that he had studied the Critique of Pure Reason, whereas I can't find any evidence that Mill did, as he would have come too early, before the critic became standard reading in the anglosphere. So while Mill was stuck in pure Lockean empiricism, everything that's profound in Schopenhauer is just a watered down version of Kant. if you think Schopenhauer was some kind of Genius with a capital G, reading Kant will most likely change your mind.

I just realized, even so called intelligent women use it all as a mask. I met a girl who was studying classical literature and at first she seemed intelligent but I realized after a while it was all just name drops and flexing to impress me. There was no depth of appreciation. Now she's dropped the whole pretense of intellectualism and became like any other hoe. Schopenhauer was right.

How to control Schopenhauerian will.. he says it cannot be controlled but to try asceticism and art to get close.. I say that's wrong we can control it but how? I don't think it's no Crowleyian ritual but I'm sure it's secret hidden knowledge that only the elite know