/lit/ - Literature

>>22948216
what even his response to this anyways? be a buddha faggot and do nothing or just get into hobbies and arts? what shitty faggot solutions, its so fucking over we're literally born to suffer lol.

>>22933039

>>21750400
Based

>>15979822
Not so fast, Hegeltard.

Life is suffering, everything we do is cope.

>>15934501
>distinction between the subject and object
which schoop then annulled from existence

>When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid.

first edition critique is best edition

Was Schopenhauer an anti-natalist?

He was right about a bunch of things and was a precursor to other great philosophers.

>Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

>A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

>If the act of procreation were neither the outcome of a desire nor accompanied by feelings of pleasure, but a matter to be decided on the basis of purely rational considerations, is it likely the human race would still exist? Would each of us not rather have felt so much pity for the coming generation as to prefer to spare it the burden of existence, or at least not wish to take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood? For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

>>15665099
>Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

>>15654147
>Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

>>15650093
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

>>15641049
>he thinks /lit/ reads

>>15638899
>The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.

>>15635281
tpbp

Paraphrasing him from one of the introductions of World as Will and Presentation: "If you're familiar with Kant, OR the Upanishads (Vishishtadvaita), OR Platonism (Plato, Plotinus, Proclus), you should be able to understand this from either one of these starting points."

>>15351710
this but unironically
A single moment of true beauty or love is worth a thousand pains. It is tragedy that gives meaning to meaning.

We live in the only possible world.
It is the best and worst possible world.

>>15085473
ah, so the mind and reality are two different things?

Everything is cope.
What cope do you use to explain away the cope benefits of cope? To say everything is meaningless is just cope to explain away never having to take a risk and lose.