/lit/ - Literature

>>14945605
It's a self-evident fact:
>At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be doen to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being.

>>14734762
Of course. Anything that can be held firmly in the mind is ipso facto a distance removed from pure truth. The only way to proceed towards truth is to pass through successive stages of negation and treating your conclusions as little more than pale reflections of the truth to serve as a guide.

>>14694776
The absence of God implies a corresponding presence. Therefore God exists.

>>14616497
jesus put it back together, unironically

>>14437315
>be me
>talking about Platonism and going on pilgrimages with my professor
>professor says he's been thinking of going to Assisi (he's been a life-long Franciscan)
>tell him that the first time Simone Weil prayed was in the Porzuincula
>professor leans back and looks at me impressed and says he's decided to go to Assisi and will pray for me when he's there

Feels good to have picked the right meme

>makes plato into an anarchist

how'd she do it

>>13196474
can the material conditions of modernity ever be reversed? can we undo the alienation of the western mind? can we reclaim our roots? can we ascend to a truly post-modern tradition??

>>12538237
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>>12538327
noice

>>12538395
how is seneca pretentious?