/lit/ - Literature

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>>3921681
I knew it!

Unknown. In popular conception, da Vinci or Newton.

>>3921690
>da Vinci
His name was Leonardo

Solomon, Hermes Trismegistus, Daedalus
the smartest man alive is probably Dawkins or that guy who invented string theory

Who is Archimedes

>>3921701

>the smartest man alive is Richard Dawkins

Are....I....Goddamn, you must be REALLY special.

Who knows? There may have been some Sumerian or ancient African genius who single handidly outpaced the entire course of our modern civilization in his line of thought that we don't know about.

Definitely it's the Monadologist with the Huge Gonadologists, Leibniz.

>>3921723

Swing and a miss.

>>3921726
>African
>genius
lol

Probably this guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inj814psiYE

DFW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_sQrxAorDo

>>3921743

So, what have you achieved in life, anon?

Just curious.

>>3921723
It's blasphemy for fedoras to say otherwise.

>>3921680

I think 'smartest' is an extremely vague term. Not trying to be a unique snowflake here but it's just a very broad term. You could ask: Who presented or created the series of ideas that revolutionized the thinking of man as a whole in the most profound way? In that case, I'd go with Einstein.
For the hell of it my bets on the 'smartest man evah':
Einstein, Goethe, Spinoza, Da Vinci, Newton, Sidney Lee.

>>3921680

In order...

1. Idi Amin
2. Papa Doc
3. Stalin
4. Willy Wonka
5. Your mom

>>3921763
>revolutionized the thinking of man as a whole
Oh yes, I'm sure the theory of relativity has really changed the lives of all those millions of people lacking even a basic education.

>>3921757
What has an African ever achieved in life?

If you say Achebe, nigga please

>>3921776

>Implying that the ability to destroy the entire world with nuclear bombs hasn't changed every single mind on the planet.

>Implying lasers aren't awesome.

>>3921701
Wow... I'm speechless. Are you really that fucking retarded?

I'm going to post this picture every time you post something

>>3921788

Why is it relevant at all? The difference between you and me is greater than the difference between me and a random nigger. Because you're fucking stupid.
If you actually were smarter and better than most niggers then you wouldn't have a need to hate on them - but you aren't, and you are painfully aware of this and this is why every time somebody calls you out for being a worthless being you have to shout: WELL AT LEAST I'M NOT A NIGGER WAAAAHAHAHA.
But you are a nigger. To me you are. And you can't hide that you are pathetic.

>>3921788
What about ousmane sembene? He was a novelist and a director

>>3921776

You do realize that Einstein's work covered a LOT more than just relativity, right?
Nah, you probably don't. If you did, you wouldn't come up with such an uneducated reply.

>>3921788

I don't care about Africans right, I care about what YOU have achieved.

Otherwise, you're just another stormfront punk who takes pride on stuff done by others, and by an accident called "being born of a certain race", without having ever achieved anything yourself for the betterment of humankind.

So, what have you achieved?

>>3921776
>Implying the greatness of an idea is dependent on whether an uneducated person can understand it

>Implying that for an idea to be great it must have an instant and tangible affect on every person on the planet

>Implying the idea that space and time are one thing isn't fucking cool

Enormous, flabby pleb of imbecilic proportions detected

>>3921801
That just proves my point that his work has no bearing on the average person.

I'd go for Goethe. At a time where one mind was capable of grasping most in: Art, science, sociology, politics etc.

>>3921809

What about the nuclear bomb, you cockjuggling thundercunt?

Srinivasa Ramanujan

>>3921792
He probably meant Hawking... but yeah, it was pretty dumb.

>>3921816
It's not the Cold War anymore, Mr Ad Hominem.

>>3921792
u say Bataille I say E L James
u say Stirner I say Rand
u say David Foster Wallace I say Bret Easton Ellis
u say Battle Royale I say Hunger Games
u say philosophy I scream ONANISM
u say theology I rip your head off
92% of teenagers have turned to dialectics and theory.If you are part of the 10% that still read real literature,copy and paste this message to another 5 threads. DON'T LET PLEBEIANS DIE!!!!

>>3921827
>Srinivasa Ramanujan
Oh yeah, you could indeed call him one of the biggest mathematical geniuses of all time.

>einstein
>not the over-hyped poster child of 20th century science
>implications

>>3921799
>Sembene Ousman

Just read a few of his novellas, damn were they good.

>mfw he had the gonads to criticize Islam, gender roles, corruption and traditional values in fucking Senegal

Socrates was, he even explained why he was the smartest man to ever lived himself. Read the Apology.

>>3921840
And Morrisey is a tonedeaf asshole.

Let's all argue without defining our terms. That'll be fun!

Define "smart", I'll give you an answer.

>>3921842
single handedly the most repulsive picture I've ever seen. I want to punch that ugly bastard through a wall.

>>3921842

Do you think Einstein's contribution to science is 'overhyped'? Care to elaborate?

Please keep his status in popular culture separate from the issue.

>>3921845
The Apology explained why anyone who claims maximum intelligence is a fool. Just because he made that implication, it doesn't mean he was the smartest. Even then, it's a subjective implication. A schizophrenic can know he is crazy just as the smartest man in the world can know he is the smartest man in the world.

>>3921842
this might be folk etymology but I'm pretty sure the use of "Einstein" in place of "genius" was only started by some advertisement that used his face to sell stuff so yeah
he was intelligent but a lot of the mystique comes from stuff like that

>>3921845
>implying he wasn't being ironic
he was a moran who couldn't even escape execution and he knew it

>>3921846
u wanna fite

Da Vinci and the rest of the polymaths aren't the smartest in terms of raw intelligence, they are just the most talented of people. In terms of brain processing power it's probably some kid with asperger's syndrome. One guy famous for that kind of hyper intelligence is an Indian Mathematician called Ramanujan. That guy was like a fucking magician when it came to maths. He lived in poor India and studied a couple of textbooks and believed that the Hindu gods would deliver him mathematical insights or some shit. His proofs apparently are very elegant and astound even the top geniuses in maths.

>>3921856
>implying he wasn't being ironic

nah, he was being straight. He used irony a lot but in the Apology he's very sincere.

>>3921796
>>3921802
I don't know, I've had a collection of my short stories published as well as several political and philosophical articles featured in magazines. I can guarantee that neither of you have accomplished as much as I have. This isn't about me though, or you. To say that my personal achievements have anything to do with my argument would be ad hominem. This is about how the amount of academic achievements that Africans have accomplished , when compared to other parts of the world, is next to nothing. I think you two understand this but, because you are insecure, claim that I'm racist in order to feel better about yourselves. Notice that I have not once mentioned skin color, yet you two both have assumed that I am racist; it's your way of projecting your own insecurities upon me. If I had said that Irishmen have achieved next to nothing (which, by the way, isn't true in the slightest, I'm just using this example for comparison), you would have, instead of blabbering on about me being a "nigger" or a "stormfront punk", either ignored me entirely or come up with some successful Irishmen that would counter my claim. The reason you resort to targeting my own personal achievements is because

A. You concede that Africans have never achieved anything, but you feel threatened by an obviously academically superior group of people so you

B. You majored in African American Studies and are trying to justify your waste of a major

C. You're one of those "politically correct" morons who goes out of their way to defend black people as much as possible, even though they probably wouldn't defend you

>>3921848
Go to bed, Wittygenstein.

Smartest man ever? Are you 12 or something? I had similar questions puzzling me at that age. Some people are even answering it as if it meant something.

>>3921829
LOL

>>3921872
Define "bed".

I kid, I kid.

Back to the racism!

>>3921863
yeah but you're missing that the beauty of Socrates is that his wisdom lies in the wisdom to know that he doesn't know.

so the Apology is like irony with the legs cut out from under it - which is tragicomedy.

>>3921882
>yeah but you're missing that the beauty of Socrates is that his wisdom lies in the wisdom to know that he doesn't know.

doesn't matter where it lies really, he was the still the wisest men to ever live

>>3921884
i wouldn't deny that.

>>3921701
The knee-jerk reactions and tiring arguments against him were expected but Dawkins is actually a very renowned biologist. I'm a layman who particularly enjoyed "The Selfish Gene" and "Ancestor's Tale" the former was a life changer.

>>3921828

Why do we always feel the need to pick physicists as smartest person eva? Big Bang Theory?

>>3921864
so what the fuck is your point about african people? are they genetically stupid or not?

Intelligence is relative.

>>3921903
So is everything
Discussion killed.

>>3921895
he's an intelligent scientist (or he was; I guess he's more interested in being a charlatan now) but a person who wrote "Postmodernism Disrobed" shouldn't really be considered a public intellectual if such a thing exists
he's supposed to be known for debating but I don't know when he's debated anyone notable

haha goddammit /lit/, sometimes you amaze me

>>3921864

No, this is about you, twat, demeaning an entire race (which is an obsolete construct anyway), which automatically implies that YOU do not belong to that race, implying that you are on some sort of a higher position through achievements --achievements which, mind you, have had absolutely nothing to do with you.

And, by the way, your "achievements" are shit. Articles? Don't make me laugh. And me thinking you were going to babble about the cure of polio, color TV, or space travel.

HA!

>>3921726
His intelligence would have heavily decayed due to malnutrition and other factors.

>>3921829

Wow.

I never thought I'd see this level of stupid on /lit/.

>>3921776

Wow.

>>3921931

Are you serious? Did you not know that Timbucktoo was one of the world-centres of knowledge exchange in the middle ages?

>>3921776
Ouch, I feel like I'm talking to my creationist uncle

>>3921763

>Spinoza but no Liebniz
wtf r u doin

You rang?

>>3921763
Sidney Lee?

Nigga is u Danish?

>>3921813

>.jpg
>moving
>mrw

>>3921931
>His intelligence would have heavily decayed due to malnutrition and other factors.

What makes you think Africans who lived before the modern population explosion were malnourished?

>>3921680

Me.

someone no one has ever heard of because (s)he had the good sense not to become famous

>>3921763
Einstein? Come on, dude. Relative to his previous theorists, he wasn't /that/ salient. He probably doesn't even rank top ten.

lol at Tesla not being mentioned yet. I overestimated you /lit/

>>3922156
silly piers....

The smartest guy ever is either Umberto Eco or Borges.

>>3921813
>>3921998
Holy shit.

>>3922259

Well, it's definitely not Eco.

Saussure.

James joyce is the smartest guy

this guy right here

I think Cioran had the most intelligent grip on existing.

أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا
>read it backwards.

>>3921701

> dawkins
> smartest man ever

Grabbed a screenshot.

Might as well throw your trip goodbye, Screwtape. You'll never live that one down.

chomsky for his encyclopaedic ability to call up a reference to any reference he needs in a discussion

This gentleman is also a nominee.

>>3922276
you realize hes a jesus nerd right?

>>3922275
Avicenna?

>>3922284
Obviously.

>>3922279
>completely ignores or plays down the impact religious philosophers like Kierkegaard and Spinoza have in his shitty "Reader's Digest" of western philosophy because of personal insecurities and bias
>smart

>>3922287
What books written by Russell have you actually read?

sigmund freud

>>3922290
i've read problems of philo and philo of logical atomism

both were obv filled w quite intelligent thoughts but they were both boring and, i thought, shortsighted

>>3922291
Obvious troll is obvious.

>>3922275

Ibn 'Arabi was smarter.

>>3922290
a big ass compilation. the cover had a photo of several book spines on it.

Wittgenstein and Einstein

this guy
>>3922296
has clearly never read any of sigmund freud's works and esp. not the ones for which he was awarded the goethe prize in literature


**snicker** u fucking pleb

>>3922295
you're not me.

but yeah, shortsighted is a good way to describe Russell.

his teapot thing is the most head-numbingly inane and logic devoid argument since Pascal's joke wager. it's shortsighted in the name of being pragmatic.

>>3922261
Maybe his writing is not as flawless as Borges' but he figured out a lot of the "secrets" of the old man.

Borges proposed semiotic problems in the form of short stories (like the Aleph) and Eco solved those problems.

>>3921680
My dad.

>>3922314
qt response

is that him sitting there dressed up in a black turtleneck w white hair like steve jobs just sitting there reading a book about the life of foreverturtlenecked steve jobs?

Postmodernism is shit.

>>3922295
You should read read more of him. But you are right about him ignoring religious philosophers, he was fairly biased towards the atheist view.
You might try "Why I am not a Christian".

>>3922299
How so?

>>3922304
I stand by my claim.

>>3922305
>his teapot thing is the most head-numbingly inane and logic devoid argument since Pascal's joke wager. it's shortsighted in the name of being pragmatic.
Are you serious?

>>3922323
pretty easy to do when you're an idiot with no knowledge at all about what it is that you're claiming

>>3922329
Don't you get all high and mighty with me.

>>3922329
Stick with your mysticism ands pseudoscience.

dan brown

>>3922337
unread retard detected

read beyond the pleasure principle, in german (after you've read his other works chronologically) and then see how you feel about saying that.

>>3922318
And yet you browse 4chan

>>3922351
u kids r laff.

i wrote a paper detailing the shift from kant to freud and kant's influence on early freudian schemas

sadly it seems like lit isn't interested in anything that hasn't been presented to them as being valuable, like a child needing an other to tell him what to do (or what not to do) so that he can feel validated

o & not to mention, you're rejecting freud before even reading him-- funny, freud would have some interesting things to say about that

>>3922353
"And yet you browse 4chan"

posted on 4chan

>>3922358
"fuck off"

>>3922363
""fuck off""

>>3922327
Yes. It's so poorly contrived I'm surprised that Russell even has any place in the philosophical realm. It's something an angsty high schooler would come up with while angry at Sunday church that their parents drug their NEET-ass to.

He philosophically tries to compare a simple phenomena (simple teacup) to a massive noumenon (every historical deity, creation and destruction mythos, world religions, lifestyles, personality cults, ideologies, personal practiced religion, ect.) that can't be naturalized in the same way. It's totally inane and very adolescent in terms of intellectual maturity.

>>3922391
I realize the conflicting remark about a "high schooler" who's a NEET doesn't work. my mistake.

>>3922314
Wait, where was that photo taken? I think I recognise that Empik.

>>3922404
>>3922316
Actually I found that picture randomly @ the internet, sorry.

>>3921701
>smartest man alive
>biologist
pick one

also 3/10

Diogenes, Tesla, or Hegel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

Known for

>Abelian von Neumann algebra
>Affiliated operator
>Amenable group
>Arithmetic logic unit
>Artificial viscosity
>Axiom of regularity
>Axiom of limitation of size
>Backward induction
>Blast wave (fluid dynamics)
>Bounded set (topological vector space)
>Carry-save adder
>Class (set theory)
>Decoherence theory
>Computer virus
>Commutation theorem
>Continuous geometry
>Direct integral
>Doubly stochastic matrix
>Duality Theorem
>Density matrix
>Durbin–Watson statistic
>Game theory
>Hyperfinite type II factor
>Ergodic theory
>EDVAC
>explosive lenses
>Lattice theory
>Lifting theory
>Inner model
>Inner model theory
>Interior point method
>Mutual assured destruction
>Merge sort
>Middle-square method
>Minimax theorem
>Monte Carlo method
>Normal-form game
>Pointless topology
>Polarization identity
>Pseudorandomness
>PRNG
>Quantum mutual information
>Radiation implosion
>Rank ring
>Operator theory
>Operation Greenhouse
>Self-replication
>Software whitening
>Standard probability space
>Stochastic computing
>Subfactor
>von Neumann algebra
>von Neumann architecture
>Von Neumann bicommutant theorem
>Von Neumann cardinal assignment
>Von Neumann cellular automaton
>von Neumann constant (two of them)
>Von Neumann interpretation
>von Neumann measurement scheme
>Von Neumann Ordinals
>Von Neumann universal constructor
>Von Neumann entropy
>von Neumann Equation
>Von Neumann neighborhood
>Von Neumann paradox
>Von Neumann regular ring
>Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory
>Von Neumann spectral theory
>Von Neumann universe
>Von Neumann conjecture
>Von Neumann's inequality
>Stone–von Neumann theorem
>Von Neumann's trace inequality
>Von Neumann stability analysis
>Quantum statistical mechanics
>Von Neumann extractor
>Von Neumann ergodic theorem
>Ultrastrong topology
>Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem
>ZND detonation model

>>3922445
>Von Neumann had a wide range of cultural interests. Since the age of six, von Neumann had been fluent in Latin and ancient Greek, and he held a lifelong passion for ancient history, being renowned for his prodigious historical knowledge. A professor of Byzantine history once said that von Neumann had greater expertise in Byzantine history than he did.

Archimedes, Gauss, Goethe or >>3922445

>>3922486
goethe is a good candidate as well

tbqh the thread idea is very stupid as it assumes that intelligence/aptitude/wit/awareness ('smartness') can be measured and moreover that two smartnesses can be measured vis-a-vis the other

my sister, e.g., is smarter than me RE: fashion and etc.

but for all the options being thrown out by the retarded lot on /lit/, i think that my suggestion (sigmund freud-- the man whose insights into psychical life have shaped the world in so many manifold ways and in such a short time)-- is not much of a stretch. to call me a troll for this suggestion is to admit you have no idea what freud actually wrote about.

>smart
>meaning anything without a good definition

Anyways, I'd argue that Srinivasa Ramanujan was probably the smartest man ever born, in terms of ability to understand divinity. Galois is my favorite mathematician though. Non-mathematicians don't count when discussing brilliance or genius.

>>3922573
>ability to understand divinity

wow, /lit/ is overrun with religious folk

>>3921701
>Dawkins
>alive

>>3922578
edgy theists are the next stage of internet counterculture

>>3922573
muslim detected

In terms of IQ, it's probably this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis

He had a sad life though :(

>>3921680
Of course we can consider only those with surviving writings..., therefore maybe Peter Abelard, or someone whose name I've forgotten (from the Arabist tradition in the same period anyway) come to my mind.

>>3921903
Liberal detected

Gauss or Newton. There is no other answer

>tfw when most of these men are Jewish

I'm comfortably more intelligent than most people I come across, and educated to a high level, but deep down I know I will always be painfully mediocre. Don't tell /pol/, but I often wish I were ethnically Jewish or at least from a Jewish background. It seems most of the great ideas, scientific advancements and political movements which have had such a profound impact on humanity have all come about through Jews.

>>3922623

Jews have been 50% of the world's chess grandmasters while making up less than 2% of its population.

Anno

>>3922630

That's like basketball and black people. I am Jewish and I cannot even draw a chess match against a 5 year old.

>>3922645

Well, duh. We're talking about standard deviations in large groups of people. There are still going to be really stupid Jews and really smart black people.

>>3922630
>50% of the world's chess grandmasters
>less than 2% of [the world's] population

how often do you think the dogon play chess, you fucking idiot?

did i just get trolled what the fuck

>>3921763
>You could ask: Who presented or created the series of ideas that revolutionized the thinking of man as a whole in the most profound way? In that case, I'd go with Einstein.

Karl Marx.

>>3922665

No, that would probably be "J," the author of the Penteteuch. Or Plato.

>>3922665
good candidate also

>>3922578
>math
>not the words of god
Get a load of this atheist.

>>3922590
Where are you getting that from?

>>3922645

>cannot even draw a chess match against a 5 year old

That's actually a bad example. The cognitive functions chess relies upon actually develop very early, which is why there are many brilliant child chess players. It's the same reason you see so many child prodigies in Maths and Science, but very few advancing our understanding of existentialism.

>>3922643
I concur, here is proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vanjlXLN5o

>>3922623

If we want to limit this discussion to those men who have had the greatest impact upon the 20th century at least, I would nominate Freud, Marx, Einstein and Darwin. All but the last were Jewish.

>>3921701
string theory is a joke, you know that right?

>>3922593
Too much made up shit surrounding this guy.

ctrl+f 'Wittgenstein'

1 of 1

WHAT?

>>3922673

>fruit
>fruit
>fruit
>fruit

>>3922623
I have a feeling you already are =\

Aristotle

>>3921964

>no one seems to know who this guy is

Somehow, I'm not really surprised.

>>3922729

He was the smartest guy of the 21st century, probably. But Leibniz definitely takes the cake, with maybe Goethe or one of the Greek geniuses coming second.

>>3922745
Aristotle believed you thought with your heart and that a brain was just a cooling system for the body

>>3922753
>wittgenstein
>21st century

I don't think so, Tim.

>>3922759

Shit, I meant 20th. lwl

>>3921680
Well, I'm having trouble parsing your question

>>3922755

>information argument

>>3922755
based Aristotle

>>3922755
and he was right

>>3922797

You. I like you.

>>3921701
Gonna have to agree with >>3921723
not just the richard dawkins part
>that guy who invented string theory
implying string theory is correct
implying one person did it unaided
mfw

James Maxwell or Von Neumann

>>3922743

>dat Jewish propaganda

Socrates obviously
I mean, come on
"All that I know is that I know nothing."
The man was a genius.

>>3922729
>>3922753
>Couldn't understand Godel's incompleteness theorem
>Smartest man of the 21st Century
Nope.

>>3922282
i read the outsiders and i realized im just like mersalut, nobody understands me, too f*cking edgy
i've been listening to alot of burzum right now, you probably havent heard of them

>>3922581
"'What! Are you dead already?' I said to him.
And he then: 'How my body stands in the world
I do not know. So privileged is this rim

of Ptolomea, that often souls fall to it
before dark Atropos has cut their thread.
And that you may more willingly free my spirit

of this glaze of frozen tears that shrouds my face,
I will tell you this: when a soul betrays as I did,
it falls from flesh, and a demon takes its place,

ruling the body till its time is spent.
The ruined soul rains down into this cistern.
So I believe, there is still evident

in the world above, all that is fair and mortal
of this black shade who winters here behind me.
If you have only recently crossed the portal

from that sweet world, you surely must have known
his body: Branca D'Oria is its name,
and many years have passed since he rained down.'"
more fitting for Hitchens imo but he's actually dead now
http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/12/burn-in-hell-christopher-hitchens.html

>>3922755
He was right, though I really don't care enough to convince you. It is a philosophical problem, not a biological one, for biology sustains it even so. Anyway, you don't want to know.

>>3921754
fuck I need to get out of here, I knew exactly what video it would be prior to clicking it

human intelligence is pitiful

even the most "intelligent" of men are so disgracefully limited by their circumstances, by their upbringing, by what they've read, by their prejudices and dispositions. It's why a genius can be a racist when "even everybody knows that racism is bad".
There is far more vanity about being intelligent in the world than there is actual intelligence. Human intelligence is limited but human's capacity for vanity is fucking limitless.

>>3921680
Edward Witten for unifying string theory

>>3922831
Yeah I agree with this, intelligence doesn't really mean shit when it comes to judging a person.

>>3922837
You can meet somebody with an excellent memory and reasoning skills but is as deluded about his own superiority to others as any vacuous teenaged girl born into wealth or beauty.

I said Socrates was the smartest earlier in this thread, and the thing about Socrates is that he actively fought against such self-delusion and hypocrisy as though it were his duty.

>>3922820
i used listened to nothing but burzum and mutiilation and vlad tepes when i was insane, and now i can't listen to black metal without feeling crazy, how edgy is that, punk (on the real though im emotionally crippled i just found out about ryan davis dying i can't be edgy right now or clever apologies)

I am

>>3922259
Second Borges, propose Jean Baudrillard.

>>3922445
2nd for

Nuemann Janos

aka

John von Neumann

he sped us up like 15 years of science

>>3922862
second my nigga Baudrillard

maybe Siddhartha Guatama or Bodhidharma

>>3921928
Once again, I didn't even talk about race. Africa is a continent, not a race. Europe and Asia, throughout history, have both contributed FAR MORE to history and academia than Africa has, so to say that some genius would come out of Africa is completely unbased.

I'm published. I consider that an achievement, and honestly, I think most people on this board would as well. I'm young, I'm writing a novel, I have time to accomplish much more in the future. I think you're equating achievements with technology, which, to many people including myself, is hardly an achievement; technology is in many ways destructive and dehumanizing.Even then, Africans as a group of people have not accomplished hardly anything technologically.

>>3922854
>mfw I argued with an atheist on omegle about religion once and he disconnected because he couldn't think of a response when I asked him if ethics can be justified empirically

>>3922916
it took ages until the west caught up to the ideas of non-self and emptiness.

The smartest man alive is Terrence Tao.

>>3922957
go to bed Tao

>>3922946
>technology is in many ways destructive and dehumanizing

Man, I knew technology was to blame for leading me to 4chan.

>>3922821
u dumb

>>3922568

Not only psychology, but modern marketing would not exist without Freud either.

>>3922601

Averroes?

The smartest man of all time is probably an unknown, crippled by his intelligence, which weighed down upon him, making him sink into the dredges of obscurity.

>>3922788
Aristotle was pretty good.

>There is far more vanity about being intelligent in the world than there is actual intelligence

I like this person.

>>3923081
Jesus?

>thinking genuinely smart people seek out notoriety

Goethe, Gauss, Wittgenstein, or maybe Tesla. The smartest living man I know of is Marvin Minsky.

>>3923081
This makes me feel better about myself. It let's me know there's a chance I might be the most intelligent man of all time.

>>3923819
>4chan
>nope.jpg

sorry your self loathing and laziness means you're stupid rather than intelligent

Hegel, no question.

>>3921701
you done fucked up

>>3922445
>invented the computer virus
Well it looks like he's losing the intellect battle with Dr. Kaspersky.

>>3922707
It isn't a joke, it's actually a pretty compelling theory from a mathematical perspective. The recent backlash is a result of a lack of experimental evidence.

>>3922804
dat appeal to mathematics as authority

>>3924160
I love that statue.

>people saying wittgenstein
>not even acknowledging that "smart" and "smartest" is another language game

>>3923073
<3

>>3922623
as a jew, let me reassure you that there are a lot more sheep in this barn than you would expect.

>>3921813
I don't mean to alarm you, but your .jpg is moving.

>>3922314
is he reading that stupid fucking steve jobs book

stephen hawking, because he was the first one to discover science is better than philosophy.