/lit/ - Literature

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I recommend theism

„Du großes Gestirn! Wie wäre dein Glück, wenn du nicht die hättest, welchen du leuchtest!“

Also Sprach Zarathustra

So I'm currently reading some Hölderin in a course at my university, specifically his poem "Brod und Wein." I feel like Nietzsche and Hölderin are getting at the same thing here, and it really gets me going.

I just thought I'd share some German stuff that's getting me going lately.

Thoughts on this sort of thing? I'm planning on doing a paper with that as my intro and then discussing the need for a listener in the poem, though I'm not trying to make this a write my paper thread- more a "check out this cool shit" thread.

Anybody else been loving some 1800s German blend of poetry and philosophy?

Pic tangentially related, this stuff seems to be the place for some lessening of the existential Angst, as it seems all these authors are understanding
>muh feels
and I can get behind that.

>>4580301

find your own meaning in love and spiritual enlightenment

>>4008521

Some people like this chart, I don't care for it.

I know this gets a lot of hate and take it with a grain of salt and all that, but it's got some recs

>>3778955

i hate myself

>>3730153
Good stuff. "The Art of Happiness" is worth reading a few times even if you don't prescribe to those philosophies in your personal life.

Can we have a picture guide to books thread?

I'm looking for a quiz like guide to science fiction and fantasy. I'd greatly apreciate if someone could post it.

So, what do you personally think of each option in the image, which seem the best for you, which are you living right now if any?

>Ubermensch - not for me, I'm just not alpha by nature and even though I like some of what herr N had to say.
>Religion - nope, can't believe in God, just won't work
>Political - I don't care enough and I'm too jaded for this one, besides all political systems seem too flawed for me to invest my life to promote them
>Hedonism - maybe a subdued form like Epicureanism, this is probably what I'm doing now but failing horribly, no qt3.14, etc.
>Buddhism - too ascetic for my tastes, though I do like meditation and try to incorporate it into my life.
>Absurdism - Nope, too depressive, I don't want to be on the edge of nihilism all my life
>Tao/Zen - this is probably my favorite one if I had to choose one, I try to live like this but fail miserable, I'm just anxious.

Philosophical pessimism - Depending on my mood I vacillate between Buddhist/Schopenhaurean quietism and Nietzscheanism, sometimes descending into outright despair but most of the times I keep myself busy with some project, book or other media. When I am in my Nietzschean phases I tend to be very creative, passionate but also tend to despair, when in my quietist phases I tend to meditate a lot and feel quite relaxed but there is a quiet gnawing sense that something is wrong.

what, this?

posted a few days ago here, has some recommendations