/lit/ - Literature

>>20839595
/r9k/ and /lit/

>>20833537
Nietzsche was ugly, sick and unstable. He didn't have a choice in the matter. Art Shop, on the other hand, is what happens when a guy with chad genetics figures out all the stuff he's supposed to do with his life is pointless.

>>20822293
hang in there, my Magnus opus is coming out today in a few years

>be me
>solve pretty much every field of philosophy (phenomenology, ontology, epistomology, metaphysics,aesthetics, etc.)
>prove the existence of the immoral soul and God
>explain my philosophy to people
>they ignore it
why are people too stupid to understand me?

>>20815211
he scored a lot of pussy when he was young

>"It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulses that could give the name of the fair sex to that under-sized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race; for the whole beauty of the sex is bound up with this impulse. Instead of calling them beautiful, there would be more warrant for describing women as the un-aesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor for poetry, nor for fine art, have they really and truly any sense or susceptibility; it is a mere mockery if they make a pretence of it in order to assist their endeavor to please. Hence, as a result of this, they are incapable of taking a purely objective interest in anything; and the reason of it seems to me to be as follows. A man tries to acquire direct mastery over things, either by understanding them, or by forcing them to do his will. But a woman is always and everywhere reduced to obtaining this mastery indirectly, namely, through a man; and whatever direct mastery she may have is entirely confined to him. And so it lies in woman's nature to look upon everything only as a means for conquering man; and if she takes an interest in anything else, it is simulated—a mere roundabout way of gaining her ends by coquetry, and feigning what she does not feel. Hence, even Rousseau declared: Women have, in general, no love for any art; they have no proper knowledge of any; and they have no genius."

>>13550746
>>13550845
Or this guy?

>>11321621
>>11321635
>>11321684
Hegelians should get a ban

>>11158602
Start with the German Idealists. Schopenhauer's refutation of materialism is irrefragable.

>>11101242
It is a sin to waste time on bad art.

>>11000435
>>11000461
t. butt-devastated Hegelians

Lit, I think I found a next level work of art. This piece of art explores the Oedipus syndrome, and the role of the internet on the youth, there are Greek and Nietzschean themes in this treasure. It may seem like creepy shit at first, but if you look around you will find poetry POETRY.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sotHysRTN3Y
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RJgLKc_e0jo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c4YuT4GGe-I
Look around, you will soon see the literary genius in this.

>>10913241
I thought he used the word (psychache) here but it must be elsewhere, anyway:
>When in some horrid and frightful dream we reach the highest pitch of terror, it awakens us, scattering all the monsters of the night. The same thing happens in the dream of life, when the greatest degree of terror compels us to break it off.

>"THE world is my idea":— this is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflective and abstract consciousness. If he really does this, he has attained to philosophical wisdom. It then becomes clear and certain to him that what he knows is not a sun and an earth, but only an eye that sees a sun, a hand that feels an earth; that the world which surrounds him is there only as idea,i.e., only in relation to something else, the consciousness, which is himself.

Was he a solipsist?

>>10736003
He gave women up, whether or not it was voluntary is a question which likely couldn't be answered except by someone who knew him well.

Schopenhauer had the same schedule for literally 30 years.

He also pretty much lived the ideal life, I don't know what the fuck his problem was.

7:00 am - woke up, drank coffee, began writing
12:00 pm - stopped writing, played the flute
12:30 pm - went to restaurant for lunch
1:00 pm - read
4:00 pm - walked for two hours
6:00 pm - read the newspaper
6:30 pm - went to theatre or concert
8:30 pm - eats dinner at restaurant

>>8676250
>implying he wasn't chad in his young years

>>8666935
this. how can you think handsome devil in pic related did not get laid huh

What are your thoughts on cynicism and pessimism, and the philosophical implications of having these behavioral traits?

As I get older and become more acquainted with life in the working force I'm becoming far more bitter and suspicious of others. More common human traits that should not bother me get added to my shit list every day. I find myself getting increasingly more nauseated over how society works in general. But I also think it's an indication of who I am, and more importantly my background. I was raised very reclusively and had a starry-eyed and idealist attitude about things early on, and it's always been in my second nature to fully trust others. So in my case, I tend to think cynics and pessimists were once incredibly naive and youthful people, more so than average.

/lit/ what are your own personal maxims that you keep in your mind when you're writing something?

>Start to read Schopenhauer
>"First Aspect: The idea subordinated to the principle of sufficient reason: The object of experience and science"

u wot m8

Post your intellectual master-mind ITT
Laugh at others who think they've got it all figured out by themselves.
Recommend new masters to others.

The Kantian doctrine then will be sought for in vain anywhere else but in Kant's own works; but these are throughout instructive, even where he errs, even where he fails. In consequence of his originality, it holds good of him in the highest degree, as indeed of all true philosophers, that one can only come to know them from their own works, not from the accounts of others. For the thoughts of any extraordinary intellect cannot stand being filtered through the vulgar mind. Born behind the broad, high, finely-arched brow, from under which shine beaming eyes, they lose all power and life, and appear no longer like themselves, when removed to the narrow lodging and low roofing of the confined, contracted, thick-walled skull from which dull glances steal directed to personal ends. Indeed we may say that minds of this kind act like an uneven glass, in which everything is twisted and distorted, loses the regularity of its beauty, and becomes a caricature. Only from their authors themselves can we receive philosophical thoughts; therefore whoever feels himself drawn to philosophy must himself seek out its immortal teachers in the still sanctuary of their works. The principal chapters of any one of these true philosophers will afford a thousand times more insight into their doctrines than the heavy and distorted accounts of them that everyday men produce, who are still for the most part deeply entangled in the fashionable philosophy of the time, or in the sentiments of their own minds. But it is astonishing how decidedly the public seizes by preference on these expositions at second-hand. It seems really as if elective affinities were at work here, by virtue of which the common nature is drawn to its like, and therefore will rather hear what a great man has said from one of its own kind. Perhaps this rests on the same principle as that of mutual instruction, according to which children learn best from children.