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>When we read, someone else thinks for us; we repeat merely his mental process. It is like the pupil who, when learning to write, goes over with his pen the strokes made in pencil by the teacher. Accordingly, when we read, the work of thinking is for the most part taken away from us.

>Hence the noticeable relief when from preoccupation with our thoughts we pass to reading. But while we are reading our mind is really only the playground of other people’s ideas; and when these finally depart, what remains?

>The result is that, whoever reads very much and almost the entire day but at intervals amuses himself with thoughtless pastime, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who always rides ultimately forgets how to walk. But such is the case with very many scholars; they have read themselves stupid. For constant reading, which is at once resumed at every free moment, is even more paralysing to the mind than is manual work; for with the latter we can give free play to our own thoughts.

>> No.22647237

>>22647233
this nigga out here dropping truths and actin like we wouldnt notice khrrrrr

>> No.22647238

>>22647233
>>>22647233
>just as a man who always rides ultimately forgets how to walk

heres your utter gibberish i pulled out my ass bro

>> No.22647256

>>22647238
>I sit my ass all day and I'm just fine!!!
fatso got triggered by schoppy. kek

>> No.22647265

>>22647238
>what is muscular atrophy

>> No.22647273

>>22647256
>>22647265
Cope and ultimately unjust. Despite the cynicism you don’t forget how to think just as with walking.

>> No.22647398
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>>22647233
im unironically a schopenhaurian, i like him and his philosphy, he started as a well put together but dickish person and by the end grew into a very nice man
im also a marxist, no i dont think those are contradictory tho

>> No.22647440

>>22647233
Joh I've got to read Schoppie. I've had this same thought recently that there is no such thing as arm chair philosophy. I came to this realisation when I noticed a strong correlation between my favourite writers and how interesting the lives they led where.

>> No.22647774

>>22647398

>im also a marxist

looooool bro

>> No.22647792

>>22647398
>im also a marxist
retard tier post

>> No.22647921
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>>22647233
>When we read, our minds are like wombs, allowing another man to impregnate our mind-womb with his idea-semen. It is in this way that reading is the gayest act of all, as female pregnancy is the physical birth, male pregnancy is spiritual in nature. The pinnacle of homosexuality exists in the form of taking a man’s thought-penis into our holiest, most sacred and mysterious of organs, the brain.

>> No.22648487

>>22647774
>>22647792
seething

>> No.22648579

>>22647233
Based! Letting another man coom deep into your brainpussy is gay as hell!

>> No.22648709

Schoppe is right. Anyone who reads more than 10 hours weekly is a brainlet. Proper literary engagement is a doublet of perceiving (critically, initial analysis) and contemplating (even more critically, secondary analysis), and contemplation should take the majority of time. 10 hours of truly good and truly deep literature can provide years of potential analysis, so limiting it to a week is quite charitable considering that ideas worth caring about last a lifetime (final analysis). Ofcourse if you're reading genre slop or some sentimental Dickens novels and Shakespeare plays, those can gobbled up with a shovel with minimal damage to the psyche, but at this point you are consooming in a way no different from someone who plays League of Legends all day long.

>> No.22648722

>>22647233
Don't care

I love exploiting the fuck out of writers. I also download all of my shit from libgen.

Think for MEEEEEEEE

>> No.22648870

>>22647265
>forgets

>> No.22648921

Based

Writing > reading

I didn't finish reading the OP btw

>> No.22648925

>>22647233
That's only true if you merely consoom a book. You're supposed to reflect critically upon what's presented to you, forming your own thoughts.

>> No.22649655

>>22648709
what books do you like name some

>> No.22649675

*Hits pipe* Fellows, is it GAY to READ BOOKS?
Think about it, you're LITERALLY letting another man's emanations enter into your body to impregnate your mental womb with his ideas.

>> No.22649834

>>22647233
meta-will was valuable

>> No.22649859

>>22647233
Books make you think though?

>> No.22649896

whenever i read i'm still well aware and metaconscious of the act of reading. I can't get into the writers mental content because the Will is still making me aware of my own thoughts like I'm observing the arising of words instantaneously perceived as a dissociative alter. I have the kindle in my hands ,feeling the silence of my room, I read while I can perfectly have thoughts of my own. It's distracting of course but I can't do nothing about it Schopi! what's going on with the power of the Will

>> No.22651546

class of objects belong to logical principles or no?

>> No.22651975

>>22647398
least retarded marxist

>> No.22652272
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>>22647233
holy fuck can you let me live my life in peace?
>NOOOO YOU CANT CONSOOM DIGITAL MEDIA
>NOOOO YOU CANT CONSOOM BOOKS