/lit/ - Literature

>In short, we find in them [Jews] only an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched.

why do chuds hate this guy again?

>>18573726
>Neither united
>Nor soviet
>Nor socialist
>Nor a republic

*writes*

yep, that one's going in my cringe journal

>and my coffee

>We live on a freaking science rock

I think that’s the point of the chart.
If not, I’ll take credit

>>14762983
>This is OP. You guys could not read correctl
Stopped reading there.

Post dead writers you would want to hang out with.
>Voltaire
Just look at that conniving smile of his. You just know he was a crazy bastard and you’d have a ton of fun

>>13823276
no. it happened again in russia, and elsewhere in europe, and in asia, and in south america, and then again; literally every fucking time, WORKERS RISE UP = dude this is cool for exactly one second then some fractious Other creates a bunch of liveleak video material out of your guts

left, right, it don't matter, in every single case the nations involved would have been better off being cucks to their grievances because when they tried to fight the situation got a million times worse, both top down and from their own fellows

it's almost like *hits pipe* normies are apt for every yoke

>God is real. End of discussion. Now move the fuck on and do something productive with your life.

>>12654694
The Islamic Golden Age was in no way Islamic, nor Golden, nor an Age.

rec french authors

how do I start learning french?

Post authors of your personality type

>>10449512
You funny guy
I read you last

>>10400772
>get money, fuck snitches
>my rhymes ain't got any stiches
>hre are just a bunch of fake ass bitches

The ENLIGHTENMENT.Anyone who considers they have something worthwhile to say about it,please do.This is a "red-pill me on x" sort of thread,talk about the fundamental philosophy,personalities and so on.

>Voltaire distrusted democracy, which he saw as propagating the idiocy of the masses. Voltaire long thought only an enlightened monarch could bring about change, given the social structures of the time and the extremely high rates of illiteracy, and that it was in the king's rational interest to improve the education and welfare of his subjects.

>The great vice of democracy is certainly not tyranny and cruelty: there have been mountain-dwelling republicans, savage, ferocious; but it is not the republican spirit that made them so, it is nature.
>The real vice of a civilized republic is in the Turkish fable of the dragon with many heads and the dragon with many tails. The many heads hurt each other, and the many tails obey a single head which wants to devour everything.

>Almost nothing great has ever been done in the world except by the genius and firmness of a single man combating the prejudices of the multitude.

Was Voltaire right, /his/?

Why was he so smug?

>>8976810
>>8976833
>>8976837

Underrated

Read from "CATO. ON SUICIDE, AND THE ABBE ST. CYRAN’S BOOK LEGITIMATING SUICIDE." to "LAWS AGAINST SUICIDE"

http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/voltaire-the-works-of-voltaire-vol-iv-philosophical-dictionary-part-2

I'm cheating here, this isn't a book but Voltaire's thoughts on suicide are very interesting, particularly because they're written with very little (no) access to actual data concerning it, including data he can gather from within himself. As a whole, it's a nice bit of speculation coming form someone looking in at this phenomena from the outside.

Here's a passage I like:

>An almost infallible means of saving yourself from the desire of self-destruction is always to have something to do.
Creech, the commentator on Lucretius, marked upon his manuscripts: “N. B. Must hang myself when I have finished.” He kept his word with himself that he might have the pleasure of ending like his author. If he had undertaken a commentary upon Ovid he would have lived longer.

So why don't the Frenchies have a Shakespeare, a Dante or a Goethe? What happened to their poetry? And no, prose can't make up for it.

>>8222167
It's shitposting, but in a good way.