/lit/ - Literature

any books about dealing with the fact that you are smarter than 99% of people on the planet and everywhere you look makes you feel sad at the absolute state of billions of people and their pathetic brainlet lives?

>>11034709
>>Peterson
NO

Name your top ten philosophical favorites that have useful life advice and other anons rate. Ill go first:
>1. Maps of meaning
>2. the ego and HIS own
>3. the motor cycle and zen guy
>4. art of the argument
>5. the lauren southern book
>6. culture of critique
>7. gödel escher bach
>8. Phenomenology of Spirit

What are the most based eastern philosophy works and best translations?

What's the "Start with the Greeks" equivalent for Eastern philosophy, what's the best eastern philosophy work, and best translations?

>>10885908
>>10885982
Let me tell you the reason White people preaching Eastern philosophy sounds cringe worthy.

You see, Eastern philosophy is essentially very simple ideas dressed up in poetic aphorisms relating to nature. Instead of saying something like "do things in moderation", like Aristotle would say, they'll come out with some bullshit metaphor like

>Water always flows to the centre
>Be like water, and essence of the water shall be in your spirit

So when a White person takes this, and tries to rephrase it in a way Westerners can understand, well, there isn't really any way of paraphrasing this without sounding like a ponce.

There are literally no complex ideas in Eastern philosophy because it is quintessentially ascetic, much like the Greek Stoics and Ascetics, except the Greeks had much more tangible, useful messages in their texts.

what a guy

Don't worry it's mostly foot notes