/lit/ - Literature

>>16080016
dumb people are liked because their inferior presence makes others feel better
same reason why people hate the intelligent ones

>Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

How will Nietzsche and post-modernists ever recover?

>Death is the great reprimand which the will to live, or more especially the egoism, which is essential to this, receives through the course of nature; and it may be conceived as a punishment for our existence.32 It is the painful loosing of the knot which the act of generation had tied with sensual pleasure, the violent destruction coming from without of the fundamental error of our nature: the great disillusion. We are at bottom something that ought not to be: therefore we cease to be. Egoism consists really in the fact that man limits all reality to his own person, in that he imagines that he lives in this alone and not in others.

>>15069889
Beauty in humans is just the will of the species telling you that that person has good physical qualities.
More beautiful = more attractive for reproduction.
No, it's not canceling your suffering, its just making you horny.

>we have corporal needs lmao
>and pain sucks btw
*clap clap clap bravo!

Schopenhauer's philosophy, especially his views on dharmic religions, is making depressed as fuck.
There's this trend in Academia and popular culture that the most accurate views tend to be the most depressing ones, and some researchers agree with such perspective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
But I refuse to believe it, even if it's a self-imposed delusion I refuse to believe it, what are some philosophers that make you genuinely happy that you're alive?

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