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what is your favorite correction of aphorisms or similarly short thoughts? Something like neech, cioran, tao te ching, etc

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>>18221868
Probably the unknown masterwork that is escolios a un texto implícito by Nicolas Gomez Davila. English translations are available for free online, though there is an english paper edition out there too.

I enjoy Cioran's philosophical thought, but his aphorisms, while excellent reading, are hopelessly self-indulgent IMO.

I don't know how well they'd count as "aphorisms", but "Essays in Idleness" by the monk Yoshida Kenko (1283-1352) are well worth reading too.

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>>18221868
Sermon on the Mount

>> No.18222292

>>18221868
Eternal nothingness is O.K. as long as you're dressed for it.

>> No.18222305

Rochefoucald

>> No.18222315

>>18222292
>>18222222

>> No.18222724

>>18222040
>Nicolas Gomez Davila
I was going to respond this
some of my favorites include:
>All literature is contemporary to the reader who knows how to read.
>Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
And one that gives me encouragement:
>The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.

>> No.18224282

>>18221868
Kierkegaard

>> No.18224818

>what is your favorite correction of aphorisms
Jesus rambling like a complete schizo and his followers eating it up as though it were the most profound thing. Enter the Thomas gospel:
>(Thom. 22) Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom."

>> No.18225160

>>18222040
these both sound great, will buy

>>18222305
will check out

>>18224282
not a fan but his words on women seem good so maybe i will read

>>18224818
is this official church doctrine?

>> No.18225229

>>18225160
>is this official church doctrine?
Official in the sense that it's recognized by the church yes. Not official in the sense that it's recognized more specifically as heresy. Generally considered a gnostic text, but can be read in other ways. Doctored or written probably around ~150-250CE.

>> No.18225323

>>18225229
i think it's that only true gospel