/lit/ - Literature

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>Ramayana
>Tao Te Ching
>No Exit - Sarte
>Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
>Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

>john paul satyr

>these threads

my nigga JP

>In this sense the Dionysian man resembles Hamlet: both have once looked truly into the essence of things, they have gained knowledge, and nausea inhibits action; for their action could not change anything in the eternal nature of things; they feel it to be ridiculous or humiliating that they should be asked to set right a world that is out of joint. Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion: that is the doctrine of Hamlet, not that cheap wisdom of Jack the Dreamer who reflects too much and, as it were, from an excess of possibilities does not get around to action. Not reflection, no--true knowledge, an insight into the horrible truth, outweighs any motive for action, both in Hamlet and in the Dionysian man.
>Now no comfort avails any more; longing transcends a world after death, even the gods; existence is negated along with its glittering reflection in the gods or in an immortal beyond. Conscious of the truth he has once seen, man now sees everywhere only the horror or absurdity of existence; now he understands what is symbolic in Ophelia's fate; now he understands the wisdom of the sylvan god, Silenus: he is nauseated.
Did Sartre ever come up with anything original or is all of his work rehashed ideas he stole from other, better philosophers?

"Man should be defined by his action"

What is the appeal of this guy? And what has he said that hasn't already been said?

sartre

Derp.

this faggot right here takes the cake. he's a goddamned mongoloid

Anyone feel like their life is meaningless if they don't do something for the advancement of society?
I could pursue something like pharmacy and safely make big bucks, but I would really enjoy and know that I really did something getting a doctoral STEM degree.

Broadest most fitting (cliche) conceptual metaphors for life, existence, the self, character growth, feelings and stuff

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