/lit/ - Literature

Parents are dumb. And stupid.

Nietzsche

>died year 1900

>Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!
>Die at the right time: so teacheth Zarathustra. >To be sure, he who never liveth at the right time, how could he ever die at the right time?Would that he might never be born!—Thus do I advise the superfluous ones.

When will be the right time for you to die, /lit/?

>In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history" — yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die. One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened.

>tfw you are one of those creatures

fag

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”

so im thinken of getting an e-reader, but im concerned about the diversity of material i will be able to download for it. is it possible to put basically any book that exists on an e-reader, or can you only put extremely popular stuff on there?

what Harry Potter book do I start with? i want to read the bit where dumbledore drinks the water but i cant be bothered reading so much pages of dumb quidditch matches and ron and heromine and the muslim teacher, can i just skip the first four books or are they essential???

>>4673631
schopenhauer pls go

/lit/, tell me why Nietzsche is not the greatest philosopher the world has ever known, and will ever know?

Protip: you can't

I want to read Beyond good and evil, as well as a few other noteable works from Nietzche. is that the best place to start?

>muh overman

Which Nietzsche work is the most comprehensive in regards to his philosophy - one that will give me a total outline of his views? Will to power ? Ecce homo? Bgne?

Or would I be better off reading a secondary source?

Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?

Insanity is doing the exact... same fucking thing... over and over again, expecting... shit to change.

That... is crazy; but the first time somebody told me that...I dunno, I thought they were bullshitting me, so boom - I shot him. The thing is, okay... He was right.
And then I started seeing: everywhere I looked, everywhere I looked, all these fucking pricks, everywhere I looked, doing the exact same fucking thing... over and over and over and over again thinking: "This time, it's gonna be different; no, no, no, no, no, please... This time it's gonna be different."

>>4277683
Yes, OP. And it's also a religion without any decent Architecture. I suggest you read The Antichrist.

>>4111947
>get drunk
>bravery

Get drunk is for pussies, grow some balls.

"all the more spiritual natures should abstain from alcohol completely; water always suffice"

I just started reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, but I was wondering if this was his best work or if he had others that were more interesting or thought-provoking.

Most influential thinker since Aristotle.

Deal with it.

I've never read Neet, I've been reading TSZ a little and I feel much of it is going over my head.

Is there anything I'm missing?

Frederich Nietzsche was also a lifelong kissless virgin. There are some rumors that he may have contracted syphilis from a prostitute, but those can't be substantiated.

What we do know is that he never dated or entertained the thought of romance with anyone except a colleague of his, Lou Salomé, who friendzoned him so hard that he went irreparably insane.

Nietzsche was such a failure at getting laid that some people conjecture that he was a closet homosexual

>>1758677

away with you, you plagiarising kike whore. at least I gave the man credit for the ideas I stole.

oh, wait...nevermind

If i wanted to read a book written by Nietzsche because im interested about nihilism, where should i start?