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>>7894941
Sources on the Cynics:

http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/cynics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism_(philosophy)
http://www.iep.utm.edu/cynics/
http://www.mediafire.com/?zp2ppnxjwj28c

Arranged in order of complexity. The latter contains academic works on Cynicism, to my knowledge most important works written about the subject.

>>7879484
The meme is a bit older, lad.

How do we revive Cynicism, lads?

>>7842161
>he thinks neetism is a new thing

wew laddie

Diogenes was a good man, man.
Even Nietzsche said the highest thing that can be attained on earth is cynicism and we all know Friedrich is the based lord.


>>7481739
This. Anyone?

Serious question /lit/

How in the fuck does one become a genius tier writer such as Milton, Nietzsche, Dante or Shakespeare etc? What seperates them from the rest of us plebs?

It's like they weren't even human. Everytime I remember that Nietzsche was professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland at only 24 years old, or that Blaise Pascal wrote his first scientific paper at age 8 and by 16 had written a mathematical essay advancing the field of geometry or any other similar stories of great minds throughout history I get an overwhelming sense of dread and I'm usually left feeling like a worthless lazy piece of shit.

Seriously, how did they do it? Was it just that they weren't distracted and worked for hours everyday or what? How in the fuck does one even write an epic as great as Paradise Lost, it would seem impossible and unimaginable if it hadn't already been written by a blind and impoverished man named John Milton.

How do we become great /lit/?

>>7277058
It all comes down to what you value the most. I value freedom from obligation more than riches and entertainment, so I choose not to work. That's not to say I wouldn't like to have more money, but not to the degree that I would sacrifice half of my waking hours to achieve it. I am NEET in order to be free and not having a lot of money is a sacrifice I'm willing to make in exchange. To be free from obligation is the next greatest thing to being free from want, at least to me.

What is the best book to understand greek Cynic philosophy?