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Anonymous Thu Jun 23 23:36:59 2016 No.8202116 [Reply] [Original]

>don't like reading philosophy anymore because I'm realizing none of my genius theories and ideas are original
>if I keep reading I can't take credit for these things I came up with on my own anymore
wat do?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 23 23:49:09 2016 No.8202146 Face your own insignificance. What you think may not be original but chances are the geniuses we remember developed/explained them better so reading them will give you a better understanding of yourself.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 23 23:51:51 2016 No.8202148 you apply them to real-life examples. that's essentially all that academics do

>>	kitty !kitty/EnNg Thu Jun 23 23:57:35 2016 No.8202157 >>8202116 the only reason why you "came up" with so many "genius theories" all by yourself it's because you are submerged into them with the whole modern culture which is based upon them, reading philosophy books you just find it out

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 00:00:07 2016 No.8202163 >>8202157 based

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 00:17:45 2016 No.8202226 File: 25 KB, 620x417, samefag.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8202157 >>8202163 This is embarrassing even for a tripfag

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 01:02:45 2016 No.8202336 File: 232 KB, 448x360, 1466662825512.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8202116 Why not stand on the shoulders of giants? I say take it all in.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 01:30:48 2016 No.8202396 File: 27 KB, 2000x2792, 1466746248509.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8202116 just wait till you discover the most genius theory of all

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 01:33:17 2016 No.8202403 Don't worry, anon-kun, you can't even prove that anyone else exists. They're all your own ideas, as far as you need to be concerned.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 01:33:52 2016 No.8202405 File: 36 KB, 500x298, 1466746432884.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8202396 Psshht

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 01:56:56 2016 No.8202451 >>8202116 >Thus far philosophers have only interpreted the world -- the point is to change it. Even Napoleon was simply following in the footsteps of Alexander and Caesar.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 06:06:21 2016 No.8202878 Are you readin anything written after the 18th century?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 07:27:21 2016 No.8202975 >>8202336 This. Newton didn't reach the level of significance by being stuck in a box. Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 07:30:33 2016 No.8202978 Read up to modern times so that you can have an original idea

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