/lit/ - Literature

They thought too much, acted too little, and were working under the assumption that people did not know that life is hard and will only get worse.

Misery's the only outcome if you persist in overthinking, overcomplicating and overindulging in intellectual wank while being a general pain in the arse.

So smile a bit, joke much, Hand go pet a dog.

>>22608501
Successful people don't think about life, they live it.

>>22608501
transgressions of the norm is seldom rewarded

>>22608501
They had general success, not individual success. That is, they were successful on the only level that really matters

>>22608584
>yea bro just be depressed as long as people remember you when you die

kek you're a teenager aren't you?

>>22608501
Because there's no correlation to what you said. Stupid people make lots of money too.

>>22608592
>Being depressed is... LE BAD
>Also doing something more meaningful than the average normalfag (loser)!

>>22608557
Unsuccessful people don't think about life either, they just survive. The struggle to do better is what drives everything grand. Evolution, revolution, genes and the next PlayStation 6.

>>22608649
The overall progress is not real. Things improve, some stay the same, others don't. Play Station stopped being completely good in 3. Life was never good

>>22608501
Might just be the ones you are reading.

>>22608501
The fuck do you care what their lives were like? Inability to separate the author from his work is a feminine trait. I actively avoid learning anything about the authors to let their work speak freely, I only check the early life to make sure that I'm not wasting time on a juden

>>22608723
If life was good we would be living in Nirvana. What part of struggle do you Gail to understand?

>>22608649
this is some incredibly ugly trash

>>22608916
Yes, you get it.

>>22608501
explanations that mention depression or intelligence are meme tier.
everyone is predisposition to have particular interests. purley metaphysical interests such as philosophy are unfulfilling by nature because they are perpetually lonely. This is because metaphysical interests are full of uncertainty, involve lots of rumination (which is a psychological recipe for dissatisfaction), there are few people to share your interest with, and its difficult and time consuming to communicate it with others. this is exacerbated for most noteworthy philosophers because they lived in a time before most common people were educated so there were even less people to share their interest with.

>>22608557
>Successful people don't think about life, they live it.

>>22608785
>invokes death of the author
>but not for jews
poltards are so retarded holy shit

>>22608545
>They thought too much, acted too little, and were working under the assumption that people did not know that life is hard and will only get worse.

>Misery's the only outcome if you persist in overthinking, overcomplicating and overindulging in intellectual wank while being a general pain in the arse.

>So smile a bit, joke much, Hand go pet a dog.

>>22609036
There's no contradiction, I'm excluding a group of people not individuals

Does an engineer need to have a good relationship with his mother before you'll take him seriously when he says your prototype plane will crash into the ground?

>>22608801
It's a fight that cannot be won.

>>22608501
You took that assumption out of your ass, up until the XVIII century almost all philosophers were at least lower nobility and even after that they were still privileged intellectual bourguoises that lived with little to no material discomfort. The only exceptions are Epictetus, Proudhon and maybe Nietzsche because he wasn't recognized as a philosopher in his time.

>>22609935
An engineer is also there to fix/analyze planes. Philosophers are there to analyze life yet fucking suck at life.

>>22608501
>Au terme de leur vie, ils se trouvent avoir comme résultat, quand la fortune leur a été
favorable, un gros monceau d'argent devant eux, qu'ils laissent alors à leurs héritiers le soin d'augmenter ou aussi de dissiper. Une pareille existence, bien que menée avec apparence très sérieuse et très importante, est donc tout
aussi insensée que telle autre qui arborerait carrément pour symbole une marotte. Ainsi,
l'essentiel pour le bonheur de la vie, c'est ce que l'on a en soi-même.

>>22608501
Healthy people living good lives know not to waste their time on things like philosophy and writing. Only neurotic losers do.

Poverty is the best teacher for those who are willing to learn.

>ALL
name ten (10)

Most of them were at least financially well off enough to write phiolosophy in the first place.

>>22611575
This. Philosophy as one’s primary source of entertainment is a cope