/lit/ - Literature

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>>11091270
*saves platonism from itself*

Hehe nothing personal ma cherie

>>10975946
>tfw people don't realise that Plato was actually right about everything
https://youtu.be/en3YTSViS6s?t=6m35s

>>10681614
*blocks your path*

>>10600939
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves. It is to seek pleasures in friendship and pleasures which are not deserved. It is something which corrupts even more than love. You would sell your soul for friendship.

Learn to thrust friendship aside, or rather the dream of friendship. To desire friendship is a great fault. Friendship should be a gratuitous joy like those afforded by art or life. We must refuse it so that we may be worthy to receive it; it is of the order of grace (‘Depart from me, O Lord. . . .’). It is one of those things which are added unto us. Every dream of friendship deserves to be shattered. It is not by chance that you have never been loved ...

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue). We must have done with all this impure and turbid border of sentiment. Schluss!

Or rather (for we must not prune too severely within ourselves), everything in friendship which does not pass into real exchanges should pass into considered thoughts. It serves no useful purpose to do without the inspiring virtue of friendship. What should be severely forbidden is to dream of its sentimental joys. That is corruption. Moreover it is as stupid as to dream about music or painting. Friendship cannot be separated from reality any more than the beautiful. It is a miracle, like the beautiful. And the miracle consists simply in the fact that it exists. At the age of twenty-five, it is high time to have done with adolescence
once and for all. . .

>>10552753
>when you five minutes into affliction and chill and she gives you her absolute unmixed attention

>>10533269
>believing in the Self

Does anyone actually, unironically do this?

>>10484116
Christianity became the mainstream, which lowered the bar and convinced most people that to be nominally "Christian" without any actual practice was enough. Kierkegaard talked a lot about this and it's only gotten worse with time. In addition, most Christian don't even understand their own religion. Like seriously, how many Christians actually understand what the "resurrection of the dead" means, and that there will eventually be a "New Earth"? Not many.

>>10415226
Die to self by renouncing free will.

>>10296941
>Conciousness is the crux of reality. Everybody's experience is effectively a different reality.

Correction: everyone's experience of reality is at most a representation of it (and an often faulty one at that). The only true reality is the so-called meta-space that exists beyond interpretation >>10298427

>>10272010
>tfw a jaded Marxist reactionary theist

>>10256866
>a world without pain
>a utopia

delet this