/lit/ - Literature

tfw you know a guy who says he read Phenomology of Spirit in two days and says he doesn't need to re-read it because he understood most of it.

>>10335776
You haven't read Emerson and Nietzsche have you? If you have, I recommend reading Nietzsche's "The Future of Our Educational Systems" and anything Emerson.
>>10335922
>>10335940
The stoics do NOT say no to life. Oftentimes, like Montaigne adapted, Seneca says life is beautiful, especially if you keep death on your mind. Disce gaudere. Do not worry about the past or the present, but live in the moment. If that's saying no to life, then idk.
>>10340765
Unfortunately this, but it's probably always been this bad.

>>10307136
>>10307118
these guys are cool

>>10307035
Plato
Aristotle
Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus
Montaigne
Schopenhauer
Nietzsche
The Bible
Sam Hyde
Shakespeare
Kierkegaard
Emerson
Thoreau

Plato and Aristotle will start you on your course, and of course Homer and the tragedians should be read.

I could literally flip to any page in Montaigne and drop an amazing quote, so I'll do that at the bottom. Montaigne and Schopenhauer take the stoics to the next level by addressing the criticisms of stoics being like wooden posts and turning the advice into something achievable today.

Sam Hyde will get you out of a rut if you are having troubles with your life by advising you to get disciplined (i.e., stop smoking, stop going to parties so often, stop being addicted to entertainment, get a job or find a hobby or both, stop chasing pussy, and start philosophizing and being rational, and in all honesty criticizing everything... all if I want to sum it up extremely crudely and make him seem comparable to most youtubers today, which is far from the case)

Kierkegaard and Shakespeare will make you more human, and will, more than anyone, make you a better person without realizing it. Shakespeare's characters are something to aspire to.

Emerson and Thoreau, similarly to Montaigne and Schopenhauer, are a next step in stoicism.

Montaigne:
>Neither can all the secret thoughts of fathers be communicated to children, lest this beget an unbecoming intimacy, nor could the admonitions and corrections, which are one of the chief duties of friendship, be administered by children to fathers.
>The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness; her state is like that of things above the moon, ever serene.
>Retire into yourself, but first prepare to receive yourself there; it would be madness to trust in yourself if you do not know how to govern yourself There are ways to fail in solitude as well as in company. (note the heavy Seneca influence here. Both Montaigne and Shakespeare read Seneca, and that should tell you something)
>The great man: "Wise, and master of himself, fearing not death, or chains, or lack of weaalth, disdaining honors, firm against desire, within himself well-rounded and entire, beyond the reach of all external pain, against whom even fortune strikes in vain?" - Horace
>Compare with [the great man] the common run of men today, stupid, base, servile, unstable, and continually tossed about by the tempest of the diverse passions that drive them to and fro; depending entirely on others.

>>10307055
pic related

>>10307112
he's extremely well read

>>10282345
but why do you think about yourself that way? Are you seriously throwing aside everything that we have accumulated in our years that affects our judgment? Are we really describing ourselves by our own free will? Was it my choice to think I look fucking sexy because the confidence instilled in me by hitting the gym, knowing who I am, having a girlfriend, watching my fair share of Sam Hyde, and reading my fair of Shakespeare?

>>10257526
>DeLillo
>Ironic
>Smug