/lit/ - Literature

OP is a faggot
-anon

>>14471036
Don't try

No because you jezebelposted.

>>14471043
>>14471045
>>14471049
These aren’t very profound

>>14471036

>>14471059
Again, not profound

>We may make mistakes in the beginning and shoot the wrong people; but bloodshed is a cleansing and sanctifying thing.
Patrick Pearse

>>14471073
>"I don't get it!" he screamed, victorious, his hands covering his eyes.

>"Pull the trigger" was the last thing he ever said. I took his wife that night too.

>>14471036
Sorry
You are not a winner

>>14471036
Every happiness that a man enjoys, and almost every friendship that he cherishes, rest upon illusion; for, as a rule, with increase of knowledge they are bound to vanish. Nevertheless, here as elsewhere, a man should courageously pursue truth, and never weary of striving to settle accounts with himself and the world. No matter what happens to the right or to the left of him,—be it a chimaera or fancy that makes him happy, let him take heart and go on, with no fear of the desert which widens to his view. Of one thing only must he be quite certain: that under no circumstances will he discover any lack of worth in himself when the veil is raised; the sight of it would be the Gorgon that would kill him. Therefore, if he wants to remain undeceived, let him in his inmost being feel his own worth. For to feel the lack of it is not merely the greatest, but also the only true affliction; all other sufferings of the mind may not only be healed, but may be immediately relieved, by the secure consciousness of worth. The man who is assured of it can sit down quietly under sufferings that would otherwise bring him to despair; and though he has no pleasures, no joys and no friends, he can rest in and on himself; so powerful is the comfort to be derived from a vivid consciousness of this advantage; a comfort to be preferred to every other earthly blessing. Contrarily, nothing in the world can relieve a man who knows his own worthlessness; all that he can do is to conceal it by deceiving people or deafening them with his noise; but neither expedient will serve him very long

-- Schopenhauer

>>14471124
>>14471109
>>14471103
>>14471090
>>14471089
>>14471073
>>14471059
>>14471053
>>14471049
>>14471045
>>14471043
>>14471036
"One time, and it was just that one time, when the earth come to a close, and the universe grinds to a halt, for every human, who has ever lived, living their lives, in despair, grasping, ni"

>>14471124
>let him in his inmost being feel his own worth.
what does this worth rest on? the previously described relentless pursuit of truth?

This quote is almost real great, but it seems like there's a hole in it here. There seems to be little foundation for this central, unshakeable pillar of self-worth he describes. How does the man who knows his worthlessness learn his worth?

quote kinda boils down to "hey it's really all fucked- you haven't figured it out yet, but you will. But HEY- Man, you do you. Keep right on doin' you because fuck that other noise, YOU'RE GREAT. Trust me, you really are."

>>14471059
>We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
Archilocus

>>14471146

...hfff...
---gger

NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER

NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
GFHH

GGHHHDUHVHGNIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER

NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER


GGHHHDUHVHGNIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER

NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
GFHH
G
Gghjh
Fddffhhh
Juhjj
Jjhggy
Jgghhhh
Jhhhjhh
Jhffhbgygy
J
Uhh
y
G
F
G
GGHHHDUHVHGNIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER

NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
GFHH

GGHHHDUHVHGNIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER


NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER

NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
GFHH

GGHHHDUHVHGNIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER

NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
GFHH
G
Gghjh
Fddffhhh
Fggj
Juhjj
Jjhggy
Jgghhhh
Jhhhjhh
Jhhhygd
Hgdsrjiug
Jhffhbgygy
J
Uhh
J
F
Py
G
F
G
GGHHHDUHVHGNIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER

>>14471164
FUCCCCKKKKKKKKKK I LIVED ME ENTIRE WRONG FUCKCKKCKCKCKCKCKCKCKCKCKCK

>>14471169

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

>>14471192

>>14471210
OK, wise-guy - now attribute it.

>>14471164
What does that even mean?

>>14471236
A lot of people think that they will rise to the occasion, that context will somehow dictate their performance. Archilocus, from his experience, derided this and countered that you will never perform in combat better than you have performed in training.

"And the souls are crushed in the weight of hoodlum formalism breaks everybody down to the side-of-the-mouth sober order, the studied dead-pan poise. Here the dream is suffocating, more real than the real, the past actually, incredibly, invading the present. It's almost like you could reach out and have your youth over again, so solid, nostalgia taking form and face . . . But the fraud is immediately apparent. And the horror, the fear of stasis and decay closes round your heart."

>>14471109
With the air so cold and a mind so bitter

>>14471049
The image is highly /lit/ related though.

>>14471124
Do you know which chapter of his works this is from? Sounds like the Parlipomena

Nothing was, nothing will be, all is.

>>14471036
SAUCE?????

>>14471433
Romeo and Juliet (1960’s one)

>>14471433
Theres nude scenes too. Really hot

>He who has a why can live to bear any how.

>>14471036
Analects: "The master stood by a river and said: Everything flows like this, day and night, without rest."

Tao Te Ching: "The Tao made the One, the One made the Two, the Two made the Three, and the Three made all things."

>>14471228
Vishnu, but spoken by Oppenheimer

"Sir, the young lady is not at home; I can assure you, sir, that I am speaking the truth. If you wish to make any inquiries I can fetch the young lady's maid. You know very well, sir, that I would do everything in my power to oblige you, and that if the young lady was at home I would take you to her at once." These words being of the only kind that is really important, that is to say spontaneous, the kind that gives us a radiograph shewing the main points, at any rate, of the unimaginable reality which would be wholly concealed beneath a prepared speech, proved that in Gilberte's household there was an impression that I bothered her with my visits; and so, scarcely had the man uttered them before they had aroused in me a hatred of which I preferred to make him rather than Gilberte the victim; he drew upon his own head all the angry feelings that I might have had for my friend; freed from these complications, thanks to his words, my love subsisted alone; but his words had, at the same time, shewn me that I must cease for the present to attempt to see Gilberte.

>>14471036
Your reality is what you are told minus what you reject.

>>14471036

>>14471158
>How does the man who knows his worthlessness learn his worth?
You really did miss the point didn't you.

>Life is what you make of it.
It's the last line, I think, of a fragment of Book of Disquiet

>"Pleasure is a false God."
"Comparison is the thief of joy."

They aren't very profound but I live by them.

>They don't think it be like it is, but it do

* Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

>>14471036
>You love taking it in the arse, Papylus, but when it’s over you cry. You want it to happen, Papylus, so why are you so upset once it’s done? You’re sorry you’re turned on by something dirty? Or do cry because it’s over, Papylus?
-Martial, Epigrams, IV:48

>>14471036
>You love taking it in the arse, Papylus, but when it’s over you cry. You want it to happen, Papylus, so why are you so upset once it’s done? You’re sorry you’re turned on by something dirty? Or do you cry because it’s over, Papylus?
-Martial, Epigrams, IV:48

All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow,
Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.

>>14471330
It really isn't.

“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”

>>14473177
That’s the best you got?

>>14473204
no but I like it the most

>I will sodomize you and face-fuck you,
cocksucker Aurelius and bottom bitch Furius,
who think, from my little verses,
because they're a little soft, that I have no shame.

Catullus had a way with words

>>14473177
Why would they want to live? Sigh
Seinfeld did it better anyway...

>>14471089
>There are many things more horrible than bloodshed; and slavery is one of them.

absolutely based

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

>>14471036
All is best, though we oft doubt,
What th' unsearchable dispose
Of highest wisdom brings about,
And ever best found in the close.

>>14471036
nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga i'm 100% nigga

>>14471036
Seeing those fat jailbait tits flop around on screen was a highlight of high school.

>>14473064
I love reading these. Ancient Romans were brutal.

>>14473816
Compare this with Phaedrus- Clear proof of the superiority of the Greeks over the Romans, even in matters of pederasty.

>In coelo quies. Tout finis ici bas
Arthur Schopenhauer

>Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Robert Howard

>But when the days of golden dreams had perished,
>And even Despair was powerless to destroy;
>Then did I learn how existence could be cherished,
>Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.
Emily Brontë

>Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Jeremy Taylor

>>14474098
and the most profound of all:
>Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie
Blaise Pascal

alhough its meaning can only be understood by reading what came before, and in what context it was written

>>14473805
It's just a chestlet instagram angle

>>14474294
Implying a chestlet giving her best effort isn't exactly the deep well of *diamonds* I'm after.

>>14473177
based

The mainspring of an individual is his creative Will. This Will is the sum of his tendencies, his destiny,
his inner truth. It is one with the force that makes the birds sing and flowers bloom; as inevitable as gravity,
as implicit as a bowel movement, it informs alike atoms and men and suns.

To the man who knows this Will, there is no why or why not, no can or cannot; he is!

There is no known force that can turn an apple into an alley cat; there is no known force that can turn a man
from his Will. This is the triumph of genius; that, surviving the centuries, enlightens the world.

This force burns in every man


Parsons identified four obstacles that prevented humans from achieving and performing their
True Will, all of which he connected with fear: the fear of incompetence, the fear of the opinion of others,
the fear of hurting others, and the fear of insecurity. He insisted that these must be overcome, writing that
"The Will must be freed of its fetters. The ruthless examination and destruction of taboos, complexes, frustrations,
dislikes, fears and disgusts hostile to the Will is essential to progress

>>14473805
based

>>14474098
Whats the Schop quote in English?

>>14471036
"Women's feet are haunted by the steps of all matrilinea." - Megan Boyle

"The universe never forgives weakness." - Adolf Hitler

My all time favorite quote from literature, just because I've known it for so long is from Macbeth:
>I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er"

>>14475856
Ultimately he would be subjected to be made an example of in this very way.

so foolish does it seem to wish to be in the right at the cost of love, and so hard not to be able to communicate what is dearest for fear of losing sympathy—"hinc meae lacrimae."
nietzsche

>>14471259
>you will never perform in combat better than you have performed in training.
then why did the Apollo mission arrive early and completely safely on the moon?

>>14471053
Kill yourself Bukowski's epitaph is more profound than your little brain could comprehend

>>14471036

"The future will be better tomorrow"

With great power comes great responsibility and I am not my brothers keeper

-source: the bible

>>14471236
Probably makes better sense in the context of greeks being distinctly militaristic in addition to intellectual. "Train like you fight" etc.

>Until I was eleven or twelve, I didn't realize there was a second set of labia on the inside, since you couldn't see them. What's even funnier is that I thought urine came out of the clitoris…When you're standing up, all you see from the front is hair. Between your legs there are two soft, cushiony things, also covered with hair, which press together when you're standing, so you can't see what's inside. They separate when you sit down and they're very red and quite fleshy on the inside. In the upper part, between the outer labia, there's a fold of skin that, on second thought, looks like a kind of blister. That's the clitoris.

yes
YES

Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

>>14471036
Fuck, man. I wish the afterlife is this beautiful.

>>14471036
"the problem is...you think you have time."

-Buddha.

"When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote someone."
-attributed to Wittgenstein
This is most likely a fake quote, which makes it even better.

>>14471221
cringe

In the middle of the road there was a stone
there was a stone in the middle of the road

It wasn't that profound but there was an aphorism in Pascal's Pensees where he said that God likes to reveal his most special secrets during the night.
Considering how plenty of poets have wrote about the moon, the stars or gods of the night, the quote becomes more interesting.

>>14472536
help my worthless ass out

>"LIFE HAPPENS WHEREVER YOU ARE, WHETHER YOU MAKE IT OR NOT."

>For misery does not come from the earth, nor does trouble sprout from the ground; but human beings are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward.

>>14477676
Read siddhartha.

>>14471036
>Once the soul looked contemptuously upon the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing: -- the soul wished the body lean, monstrous, and famished. Thus it thought to escape from the body and the earth. But that soul was itself lean, monstrous, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of this soul! So my brothers, tell me: What does your body say about your soul? Is not your soul poverty and filth and wretched contentment?
>In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I teach you the Overman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can go under.
>What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue.
>The hour when you say: What good is my happiness? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment. But my happiness should justify existence itself!
>The hour when you say: What good is my reason? Does it long for knowledge as the lion for his prey? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment!
>The hour when you say: What good is my virtue? It has not yet driven me mad! How weary I am of my good and my evil! It is all poverty and filth and wretched contentment!
>The hour when you say: What good is my justice? I do not see that I am filled with fire and burning coals. But the just are filled with fire and burning coals!
>The hour when you say: What good is my pity? Is not pity the cross on which he is nailed who loves man? But my pity is no crucifixion!
>Have you ever spoken like this? Have you ever cried like this? Ah! If only I had heard you cry this way!
>It is not your sin -- it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!
>Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed?
>Behold, I teach you the Overman! He is that lightning, he is that madness!

>>14471049
>jezebel I love that word

Men are warriors and women are for the pleasure of warriors, everything are madness

>>14476039
not so much of him personally, but all the nations that lost WW2, which includes the non-Jewish people of Britain and the US.

> You have taken yourself too seriously.

> This too shall pass.

Since the beginning,
not one unusual thing
has ever happened.

A person who had no lips, whose legs were bent so that he could only walk on his toes, and who was (otherwise) deformed, addressed his counsels to duke Ling of Wei, who was so pleased with him, that he looked on a perfectly formed man as having a lean and small neck in comparison with him. Another who had a large goitre like an earthenware jar addressed his counsels to duke Huan of Qi, who was so pleased with him that he looked on a perfectly formed man as having a neck lean and small in comparison with him. So it is that when one's virtue is extraordinary, (any deficiency in) his bodily form may be forgotten. When men do not forget what is (easily) forgotten, and forget what is not (easily) forgotten, we have a case of real oblivion. Therefore the sagely man has that in which his mind finds its enjoyment, and (looks on) wisdom as (but) the shoots from an old stump; agreements with others are to him but so much glue ; kindnesses are (but the arts of) intercourse; and great skill is (but as) merchants' wares. The sagely man lays no plans; of what use would wisdom be to him? He has no cutting and hacking to do; of what use would glue be to him? He has lost nothing; of what use would arts of intercourse be to him? He has no goods to dispose of; what need has he to play the merchant? (The want of) these four things are the nourishment of (his) Heavenly (nature); that nourishment is its Heavenly food. Since he receives this food from Heaven, what need has he for anything of man's (devising)? He has the bodily form of man, but not the passions and desires of (other) men. He has the form of man, and therefore he is a man. Being without the passions and desires of men, their approvings and disapprovings are not to be found in him. How insignificant and small is (the body) by which he belongs to humanity! How grand and great is he in the unique perfection of his Heavenly (nature)!

I want to motorboat her

>>14471089
you cant do a proper lat raise like that

>Hungry livestock, though in sight of pasture, need the prod.

>>14477758
Not an aphorismic quote. Still inconceivably based.

>>14471036
"anyone using my name or quoting me is a deep shit asshole"
- George Orwell

>>14471530
Seems fitting since the story is about physical attraction, not real love.

Even if the snake's skin is soft, when volatility strikes you WILL find poison in its fangs.
I'm cheating cuz this is not a quote its from a poem and its not in English so this is a rough translation.

>>14480283
"Indeed, a snake is soft to the touch but in when the time comes you find poison in its fangs"
its talking about how "fakes be snakes when shit is real". this is just another attempt to translate it this might make it more justice.

[15:6] Zi Zhang asked about correct behavior. Confucius said: “If your speech is sincere and honest, and your way of carrying yourself is earnest and reverent, such behavior will work even if you live among the Southern and Northern barbarians. But if your speech is insincere and dishonest and your way of carrying yourself is neither earnest nor reverent, then even if you live in your hometown, you will have problems.” Zhi Zhang wrote these words down on his sash.

>>14471036
damn, nice cans on this bitch
sauce?

>>14471036
'In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.'- Plato

>>14471059
Berlin?

>>14471036
And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

"unexamined life is not worth living"

>>14471036
"The impulse towards pleasure can be self-defeating. We fail to attain pleasures if we deliberately seek them."
not the most profound i've ever read but my recall is shit. most profound thing I've read this week though

>>14471259
>context will somehow dictate their performance
How can this not be the case? No matter how you practice for something, you cannot repeat each and every circumstance. There's always an element of luck and unpredictability and it's this factor that has shaped our reality.

The real quote should be "Rise to the challenge, maybe"

>>14480574
The second half of that sounds eloquent, but also untrue, or hyperbolic.

For every quote there's a compelling opposite.

In my experience, quotes, like philosophy have no inherent truth to them and every true-sounding quote has a rhetorical response that sounds just as pithy and convincing.

>>14480649
For instance, "Shoot for the moon and even if you miss you'll land amongst the stars.">>14480574

It's a shitty example, but you get my point. Quotes are just clashing philosophies with rhetoric to trick you.

s death. Of course, life is not bad in every way. Neither is death bad in every way. However, both life and death are, in crucial respects, awful. Together, they constitute an existential vise—the wretched grip that enforces our predicament.

For wee must consider that wee shall be as a citty upon a hill. The eies of all people are uppon us. Soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our God in this worke wee haue undertaken, and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. Wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the wayes of God, and all professors for God's sake. Wee shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into curses upon us till wee be consumed out of the good land whither wee are a goeing.

>>14480736
both life and death are shitty is essentially what he's saying. Wouldn't that be the same as saying both are good, or each are nothing? Considering, such definitions can only exist within the context and moral judgement of those living.

>>14475765
>Calm reigns in heaven. Down here all is ending
Something like this

>>14471036
anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, “the descent to hell is the same from every place.”

>>14471158
posting just to laugh at you

>>14471158
The man knows his worthlessness because worth is an illusion made by man. Once you know this you're free and no longer shackled by meaningless thoughts seeking the thing they lack and can never find, meaning itself.

The point of the quote is you're never going to figure it out and there's a release in knowing that, to be worth nothing is the same to be worth anything, it's all the same illusion.

I don't even like, or read Schopenhauer and I could understand that. It's not some esoteric self-help shit.