/lit/ - Literature

God is dead

"Why?"

- Unknown

>>5205722

"All entities move and nothing remains still"

The only difference between a person who doesn't write and a piece of shit is that the person who doesn't write has literally no value

>>5205718
The avarage human being has more in common with a chimpanzee than with Plato or Nietzsche.

"I have become the bringer of lels" - Some guy who invented atom bom

Why do you want to know?

"The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

I like the following too, not for its religious notions, but for deep anthropological significance:

"I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world."

>>5205718
'I don't know'
--said one philosopher ever

>>5205884
pyrrho?

As Above, So Below

"You too, Brutus?"

whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent

How you feel is everything.

>>5205718

I don't think it's possible to find one statement that is clearly most profound, but the one that has probably been most profound for me so far is this:

"Up to now it has been assumed that all our cognition must conform to the objects; but all attempts to find out something about them a priori through concepts that would extend our cognition have, on this presupposition, come to nothing. Hence let us once try whether we do not get farther with the problems of metaphysics by assuming that the objects must conform to our cognition, which would agree better with the requested possibility of an a priori cognition of them, which is to establish something about objects before they are given to us. This would be just like the first thoughts of Copernicus, who, when he did not make good progress in the explanation of the celestial motions if he assumed that the entire celestial host revolves around the observer, tried to see if he might not have greater success if he made the observer revolve and left the stars at rest."

Also, what has become one of my favorites:

"The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air, the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space."

Give
her the d

'I know that I know nothing'

>>5205946
I was thinking of Socrates. Maybe there are others who've acknowledged not being omniscient. Maybe it's just all the know-it-all philosophy students that've given me a bad taste in my mouth.

drop out of life with bong in hand,
follow the smoke towards the riff filled land.

all of these are so ba

>>5206005
*bad

If A Book Store Never Runs Out Of A Certain Book, Dose That Mean That Nobody Reads It, Or Everybody Reads It?

>>5206005
>>5206006

true. time to engage in /mu/ level self-consciousness and resort to obscure and incomprehensible statements.

OP is a faggot

>>5205718
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever ... All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full: unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

BANJI

>>5205976
mah nigga

>>5206034
Enter the Internet.

>>5206064
>implying that this endless circlejerk of ancient memes and endless arguments doesn't prove exactly his point

Thingcrooklyexineverypasturesixdixlikencehimaroundhersthemaggerbykinkinkankanwithdownmindlookingated -- James Joyce

>>5206083
Wold Forrester Farley who, in deesperation of deispiration at the diasporation of his diesparation, was found of the round of the sound of the lound of the.Lukkedoerendunandurraskewdylooshoofermoyportertooryzooysphalnabortansporthaokansakroidverjkapakkapuk. Byfall. Upploud! -- James Joyce

>>5205728

>>5205718

I AM WHAT I AM.

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves”

If you want somebody to love,
if you need somebody to love,
you better find somebody to love-uv-uv-uv

>>5206422
No

>>5205958
>>5205864

My niggaz.

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

"…but is it though?"
-Hume

>>5206422
I laffed. HARD

Philosophy is never used to tell us how to act, it's used to justify how we've acted.

Obviously something written by a man.

"Death exists to make life valuable."

>>5206473
"I swear by my life and my love of it that I shall never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

>>5206497
didn't even know that was attributed to rand. a girl i went to university with always left that quotation at the end of her emails. makes a lot of sense now, actually

>>5205749
wasnt this from that cartoon

>>5206497
Who gives a fuck.

This is some gay fucking tumblr quote bullshit.

>>5205718

"There's a way around anything anyone has and will ever do, always."

"everything is a spooks" -Max feministerner

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."

"I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal."

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.

>>5206578
>roost coal!!!!

>>5206578

*tips fedora*

>>5206578

it's all great until the last part, fuck honor, we abominations shall ravage the earth until there are no more of us left

>>5205737
>literally
Organs are pretty damn expensive.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao

"See you space cowboy"

>>5206022
Depends on whether the people in charge of the bookstore are dumbasses.
>nobody is buying a certain book
>leave it on the shelves instead of using the space for something more popular
It's often more cost-effective to just throw them away.

started from the bottom, now we're here

ayy lmao

>>5206422
apologies for bad english
where were you when Gods dies?
i was sit at home drinking brain fluid when fredrich ring
"god is kill"
"no"
and you???

>>5206005
I think you mean "these are all 1st Year Uni level" quotes.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent

Veni, Vidi, Vici

truths are illusions about which one has forgotten

In space, no one can hear you scream.

"Solidarity's gonna give a lot less than it'll take"

There's a sucker born every minute.

>>5206520
>gay
nice

>>5205718

Feminister=FemiMISTER!

Whenever I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my revolver.

there is no answer for this let alone a right one

>I don't need your pussy bitch
>I'm on my own dick

This is the conclusion reached by any sentient being. If humans send another disk into space we should add this to it.

Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.

There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

Eppur Si Muove

Panta rhei

>>5207092
>implying this is not just harmless, cheeky egoism

Of all the truly braindead things mankind has had to offer, a self-aware jibe is hardly worth highlighting.

>>5206549
I think you missed the point of the book guy

>>5206866
The tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging tao

>>5207100
Dont you mean cigar? Or are you conflating the freud quote with that painting of a pipe?

>>5206497
but who YOU are really?
a man is nothing but a part from the universe, as a wave is a part from the ocen.

>>5207409
The treachery of quotes.

>A public can only arrive at enlightenment slowly. Through revolution, the abandonment of personal despotism may be engendered and the end of profit-seeking and domineering oppression may occur, but never a true reform of the state of mind. Instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones, will serve as the guiding reins of the great, unthinking mass.

sadly it perfectly describes the 20th century

>What doth life? Are we just fleshy blips in some meaningless stew of cosmic oblivion?
>Or is it vice re-versa?

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

>>5205969
wouldn't it be better if you said 'I know that I know nothing beside this'?

>>5207356
What book?

>>5207516
No, because the point of it is to be a paradox.

">not being a STEM student"
- anon

>>5207523
what's the point of having a paradox that's easily un-paradoxed

>>5207549
It means that even if he does know things, in the grand scheme of things, he knows absolutely nothing. That the world is so wide and full of information that it's impossible to grasp, you might as well know nothing. That's the point, you are not smart.

Cogito ergo sum

>>5205718
"Hope is a good comforter in the hour of danger, and when men have something else to depend upon, although hurtful, she is not ruinous. But when her spendthrift nature has induced them to stake their all, they see her as she is in the moment of their fall, and not till then. While the knowledge of her might enable them to beware of her, she never fails. You are weak and a single turn of the scale might be your ruin. Do not you be thus deluded; avoid the error of which so many are guilty, who, although they might still be saved if they would take the natural means, when visible grounds of confidence forsake them, have recourse to the invisible, to prophecies and oracles and the like, which ruin men by the hopes which they inspire in them."

>>5207564
if you read my post again, you'd find that I wasn't asking the meaning of that particular quotation, but rather what the point was of having a paradox that is easily solved

>>5207572
What does 'solving' even mean in this regard? The quote is the way it is for a reason, your addition made it worthless.

>>5205718
This too shall pass

>It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

>>5207573
idk, gives it more validity, I suppose

why don't they think it be like it is but it do

>>5205755

>>5206578
-Sir Neckbeard Fagginton IV

tfw no gf

>>5208000
trips confirm

>>5206422
amazing. don't know whether it would be improved with "no" right underneath

>>5206422
That quote is incorrect

>>5206454

>>5207409
The cigar is a misquote. Pipe is what Freud originally said, in response to one of his smartass students remarking about his pipe, which he had with him most of the time, while talking abut oral fixation. He didn't have a cigar with him all the time, so saying cigar doesn't even make sense in context. The painting was referencing the real quote, and somewhere along the line, pipe was replaced with cigar because it was more phallic and didn't require context to be funny.

"What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
But enough talk...
Have at you!"

>>5208154
Lol, quoting Castlevania...

When we looked
at the relics
of the Precursors,
we saw the height
civilization can attain.

When we looked
at their ruins,
we marked the danger
of that height.

Nigga basically what I'm sayin' is yo dolla ain't shit you feel me
And bullshit ain't nothing but chewed up grass
And thats a big black ball that come out of a cows ass
So the next time you see that anointed bitch you know
Bend her spin and go up in her and let her know
Bitch there is no dinner

>>5208164
Are you questioning Dracula?

>>5208173
He doesn't have the balls to question him to his face.

>>5208173
Dracula was a straight up bitch in that game. He died like a pussy TWICE, SON!

But seriously though, at least you picked the greatest game out of that franchise to quote.

>>5208180
You must be new here. Enjoy your stay. Lurk more.

>>5208188
Thanks, will do.

>>5205718

I am that I am.

>>5205718
vi veri veniversum vivus vici

i know the connection to certain "edgy" elements takes away a fair bit, but i still think it's pretty good.

Woof woof bark
-dog

>>5205755

>>5207496
>what is arab spring

>>5207405
Ways can be guided, they are not fixed ways.

>>5208150
This is bullshit because the entire quote is apocryphal.

Profound? "I think therefore I am"
Important? "Why?"

Minchia fame

>>5209346
Translation, dear wise sage?

Do or do not, there is no try.
Yodalodadingdong.

>>5205722

How can an ignorant statement be profound?

>>5205718

Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

>>5209418
that is some stupid shit

i know yoda and all that what the fuck ever

but that is some stupid shit

to do you have to try m8

>>5209427
Moses called. He said he made the whole thing up.

>>5209444
No, you don't. Doing with trying implies that there might be no doing. Doing without trying is succeeding.

>>5209453
No, doing with trying is potentially succeeding or failing, and once it has become either, it is still 'done having tried'

>>5207356
Which book? The Genealogy of Morals?

>>5205725
why not?

checkmate.

>>5209461
You're equivocating the meaning of doing (verb) done (past tense) with the helper adjective.

>>5209481
...fucking fags...

>>5209481
Don't you fucking pseud me mate

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even soar."

>>5209514
You're funny. One day you'll get it.

>>5209691
if i ever become stupid enough to think that i can do something without trying something then maybe i should just kill myself

>>5207503
DEPTH OVERLOAD

>>5205718
men are stupid and women are crazy

>>5207549
The point is that no knowledge is certain, even knowledge about knowledge

“Just to be clear, I’m not a professional ‘quote maker’. I’m just an atheist teenager who greatly values his intelligence and scientific fact over any silly fiction book written 3,500 years ago. This being said, I am open to any and all criticism.

‘In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.’"

>>5205718
So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.

>>5209778
If you decide to kill yourself, just do it.

>>5206034
Ecclesiasties?

>>5209847
>>5209239
>>5205755
>>5208188
>>5208172
>>5206454
>>5208000
>>5207526
>>5206887
>>5206878
>>5206544
>>5206333
>>5205959
>>5205952
>>5205722

Fucking hell /lit/

>>5210153
Just wondering did you actually find any of those funny? Could you point out which ones?

>>5210164
ALL OF THEM

[Hook:]
Bound to fall in love
Bound to fall in love (Uh-huh, honey)

[Bridge:]
All them other niggas lame, and you know it now
When a real nigga hold you down, you supposed to drown
Bound

[Hook:]
Bound to fall in love
Bound to fall in love (Uh-huh, honey)

[Verse 1:]
What you doing in the club on a Thursday?
She say she only here for her girl birthday
They ordered champagne but still look thirsty
Rock Forever 21 but just turned thirty
I know I got a bad reputation
Walking 'round, always mad reputation
Leave a pretty girl sad reputation
Start a Fight Club, Brad reputation
I turned the nightclub out of the basement
I'll turn the plane 'round, your ass keep complaining
How you gon' be mad on vacation?
Dutty wining 'round all these Jamaicans
Uh, this that prom shit
This that what we do, don't tell your mom shit
This that red cup, all on the lawn shit
Got a fresh cut, straight out the salon, bitch

[Charlie Wilson:]
I know you're tired of loving, of loving
With nobody to love, nobody, nobody (Uh-huh, honey)

[Kanye West:]
Close your eyes and let the word paint a thousand pictures
One good girl is worth a thousand bitches
Bound

[Hook:]
Bound to fall in love
Bound to fall in love (Uh-huh, honey)

[Verse 2:]
I wanna fuck you hard on the sink
After that, give you something to drink
Step back, can't get spunk on the mink
I mean damn, what would Jeromey Romey Romey Rome think?
Hey, you remember where we first met?
Okay, I don't remember where we first met
But hey, admitting is the first step
And hey, you know ain't nobody perfect
And I know, with the hoes I got the worst rep
But hey, their backstroke I'm tryna perfect
And hey, ayo, we made it, Thanksgiving
So hey, maybe we can make it to Christmas
She asked me what I wished for on my wishlist
Have you ever asked your bitch for other bitches?
Maybe we could still make it to the church steps
But first, you gon' remember how to forget
After all these long-ass verses
I'm tired, you tired, Jesus wept

[Charlie Wilson:]
I know you're tired of loving, of loving
With nobody to love, nobody, nobody
So just grab somebody, no leaving this party
With nobody to love, nobody, nobody (Uh-huh, honey)

[Kanye West:]
Jerome's in the house, watch your mouth
Jerome's in the house, watch your mouth
Bound

[Hook:]
Bound to fall in love
Bound to fall in love (Uh-huh, honey)

>>5210127
Song of Solomon.

I'm Miley Cyrus

>>5207503

Lick dat ketchup good, ummmh, you gon' git diabeetis :)

>>5210187
I unironically think these are great lyrics and love the track

>>5205749

Whoever said that clearly knew dick-all about chimps and people both.

>>5210201
I love this song but my ex cheated on me with a black guy named Jerome. She's still with him. It's been a year and a half.
Back on topic, the most profound statement would be Descartes' s Cogito.

>>5206497
A beta female ladies and gentlewomen

>>5207033
'Alea iacta est' is better.

>>5210277
>>5207033

>>5207033
>>5210277
keep it 300 like romans

Esse est percipi

>>5205718
There is no meaning to there being a meaning to life.

Quality thread

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>>5211346

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>>5207496
and the 21st

>>5205718
I am.

>>5206549
Hats off to you for this one, Anon... if you really know where it does come from (not a video game).

Let no man count himself lucky until he is dead.

-zombie

>>5210187
>When a real nigga hold you down, you supposed to drown
>How you gon' be mad on vacation?
>One good girl is worth a thousand bitches

These are some of Kanye's best philosophical statements

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer." - Camus

>inb4 tipped fedoras

>>5205864
That's interesting, your second saying. I assume you got it from Psalms? It's actually one my my favorite little lines from the bible, and the only line I have underlined in my bible. In my Gideon Bible, it's phrased a little differently though.

Psalms 78:2 "I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old."

That's cutting it off a little bit of course, though I prefer just that part to the whole thing, which is Psalms 78:2-3 "I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,/Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us."

Anyway, cool to see that on here, I love it too.

>>5206578
All his monologues give me chills.

>>5211499
Hassan-i Sabbah and the Assasin lads, according to Nietzsche. That's where I came across the saying.

>>5211610
I like this most.

>>5206549
>>5211775
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what Nietzsche's source on this was?
Every other reference I've seen to the line comes by way of Nietzsche or an apocryphal story about Hassan-i's last words. Hardly makes it a doctrine, although it would make sense for a covert religious sect.

>>5209474
because

>>5207089
That is the result of the culture you were raised in.

>>5211962
Ya dun dun it now, pard...

All we are is dust in the wind, dude....

Morality is a fiction created by a herd of inferior men to hold back the few superior men.

This blew my mind the first time I read it

Fallor ergo sum

That which is below is like that which is above

"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."

>u cannot know nuthin

>>5212603
Why is Hegel so based

>>5205946
>>5205884
Socrates, you fucking retards. "I know that I know nothing"

>>5205946
Pyrrho wouldn't have said that, it's an assertion. He doesn't know that he doesn't know, he just suspends judgment as to whether he knows or not.

>>5212648
>u cannot even know that u cannot know nuthin

>>5212615
Because he is systemically ignored, making the first contact with his philosophy an actually new and fresh read.

Ayy lmao.

I think, therefore I am atheist

"Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks" - Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing to do and there is nowhere to go
There is nothing to be and there is no-one to know

>>5205749
probably this.
>>5206517
Waking life I think it's called

>>5212557
If it works though, the ones doing the sneaky manipulating are the superior men.

>>5211383
where can i cold pussy

>>5205718
"I got dubs, therefore I am."

“Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse. Its goal is precisely to wipe out that last little garrison of human autonomy.”

>>5214220
they warned us!
why didn't you listen!

>>5207516
no.
Adding "besides this" implies that he's sure of that fact.
For all he can tell, naieve realism could be true and he could be wrong in doubting his assumed lack of knowledge.

That is, he believes that knowledge is indeterminate, however, given that his viewpoint is based on indeterminacy, he may very well be wrong about the nature of knowledge to begin with.

Thus, a more concise re-wording would simply be "I don't know".

Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

ecclesiastes 11:8

"It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation."

>>5212599
>>5205947
I have faith.

>>5205725
>>5209474

>>Philosophy

>>5214098
Necrophilia, bro

>>5214220
>>5214228
Which member of the frankfurt school said this?

Also
>no Alan Watts ITT
>I must contriboot

“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”

>>5205718
#yolo
it has touched more lives than any other

>>5214892
#yolo is just the carpe diem for 21st century kids.

>>5206578

>>5214959
That webm

LOL(internally)

>>5214880
>Which member of the frankfurt school said this?
Well, they didn't explicitly say such things, but it's not hard to derive the tendencies of mass culture from their ideas, especially adorno.

>>5211610
I love these

>>5205755
Best post of the whole week.
Nice dubs, too.

"What?" - guy who's hard of hearing

"She got a white-skinned friend that look like Michael Jackson, Got a Black-skinned friend that look like Michael Jackson"

"In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.’" - Neil DeGrace Tyson, 1993.

And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Lk 23:43

START A FIGHT CLUB, BRAD REPUTATION

'experiences that exist beyond me' is an experienced idea in my mind. Other experiences are unthinkable, the opposite to solispsim is inconceivable.

that's a bit out there, but i'd say, the invention of language.

>>5216085
Hipster faggot...

>>5216191
nonhipster faggot

'john is dead'
and i think
'no'