/lit/ - Literature

Hey /lit/, do you have a piece of philosophy that you consider beautiful?

What makes it beautiful to you? Is it the theme of the work? How it's presented and written?

I find A Free Man's Worship by Bertrand Russell to be incredibly beautiful.

Do you have any philosophy that you consider to be "beautiful"?

I've always found "A Free Man's Worship" by Bertrand Russell to be extremely beautiful in both style and meaning.

>>7241996
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Studying Software Engineering, doing extra research to get experience as research assistant, getting scholarship and aiming to be top of my year again this semester. I write.

>protip

Let yourself write about anything. Don't worry too much about putting it all into some great continuous work. Just write whatever every day, if you miss some days thats fine, read instead if you feel like it.

Write about your experience in third person or show via some metaphor; do stream of consciousness when you're sitting bored in some pointless lecture you don't give a fuck about.

Don't edit too much. Write with pen and paper, I suggest typewriter for home since you cannot delete anything. It's cheap and gives you instant results.

Just do it, it aint that hard.

>used to adore reading
>two-metre high bookshelf stuffed and double-stacked with my collection
>un/half-read books lying around the room (lolita, c&p, pale king, essential James Joyce and Hitchens's 'Arguably')

>haven't read a book since last year

>recently finished four years at a good uni doing a difficult degree
>grad ceremony in May
>feel like I haven't learned anything

There must be others here who know this feel

Post your creations, critique those of others.

Death fills our hungry bellies
To feed the bloody maw of life

Death warms our shivering bodies
Stoking our consuming flame

Death gives our lives impetus
Lets us cherish those who matter

Why is death so vilified
in his service to the living?