/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12890385]

What are some works of lit that are very anti-philosophy. Philosophy is so fucking bad for you, you shouldn’t wonder about wonder. It’s very dangerous

[Anonymous No.12890393]

>going into philosophy with your own answer instead of finding your answer through philosophy

[Anonymous No.12890424]

>>12890385
Look at this kid, afraid of trespassing an intellectual frontier.
Is he different than an elephant tied to a thin tree?
Doesn't he realize its time to stop working for the circus man?

[Anonymous No.12890452]

Studying philosophy at uni made me anti philosophy. It looked to me like fools masturbating their own intellect and gaining nothing of real peace. I wasted my life by being this analytical so I dislike others who have done the same.

[Anonymous No.12890461]

>implying philosophy is not a way to live a happier, more productive, more virtuous life.

Been reading the wrong philosophy friend, you have a mind, use it.

[Anonymous No.12890478]

Here's my philosophy: using your own egotistical high IQ mind is not the answer to the problem of your suffering, it is in the acceptance of suffering and the love of your own insignificance.

[Anonymous No.12890479]

>>12890461
amazing pic

[Anonymous No.12890494]

>>12890385
The Thirst for Annihilation

[Anonymous No.12890505]

Zorba the greek

[Anonymous No.12890589]

>>12890385
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with his pen the lines that have been pencilled by the teacher. Accordingly, in reading, the work of thinking is, for the greater part, done for us. This is why we are consciously relieved when we turn to reading after being occupied with our own thoughts. But, in reading, our head is, however, really only the arena of some one else’s thoughts. And so it happens that the person who reads a great deal — that is to say, almost the whole day, and recreates himself by spending the intervals in thoughtless diversion, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who is always riding at last forgets how to walk. Such, however, is the case with many men of learning: they have read themselves stupid. For to read in every spare moment, and to read constantly, is more paralysing to the mind than constant manual work, which, at any rate, allows one to follow one’s own thoughts. Just as a spring, through the continual pressure of a foreign body, at last loses its elasticity, so does the mind if it has another person’s thoughts continually forced upon it. And just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read if one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost. Indeed, it is the same with mental as with bodily food: scarcely the fifth part of what a man takes is assimilated; the remainder passes off in evaporation, respiration, and the like.

From all this it may be concluded that thoughts put down on paper are nothing more than footprints in the sand: one sees the road the man has taken, but in order to know what he saw on the way, one requires his eyes.

[Anonymous No.12890650]

>>12890393
>philosophy
>answer
lmao

[Anonymous No.12890651]

>>12890589
Fuck this thread, this is interesting as fuck.

This makes me wonder why even bother reading, but it's like I'm addicted, I can't stop.

Where do you draw the line?

sauce for the lazy https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter3.html

[Anonymous No.12890656]

>>12890385
Laruelle

[Anonymous No.12890806]

>>12890385
The Incoherence of the Philosophers

[Anonymous No.12890824]

read Wittgenstein

[Anonymous No.12890922]

>>12890385
Moby-Dick

[Anonymous No.12890933]

>>12890385
Voltaire's Candide.
I can't believe philosofaggots still exist after that came out.

[Anonymous No.12890936]

>>12890385
Check Al-Ghazali's work regarding falsafa.

[Anonymous No.12890995]

I came to the exact same conclusion as you recently. Fuck philosophy, wasted too many years on it. I don't know any works of lit about that off the top of my head Just stop reading and thinking about philosophy, and dive head first into literature.

[Anonymous No.12891111]

>>12890936
this, also guenon

[Anonymous No.12891206]

>>12890995
Literature is philosophy

[Anonymous No.12891816]

>>12890651
he is not wrong, but if you go too far in the other direction you will end up reinventing the wheel.

[Anonymous No.12891843]

>>12891111
shove your mystical bullshit up your ass.

[Anonymous No.12891855]

>>12891843
"no"

[Anonymous No.12892073]

>>12891816
>caring about originality.

[Anonymous No.12892086]

>>12892073
Not caring about originality is also a pseud move, we must meet originality with unbridled hostility like that of a schoolyard bully.

[Anonymous No.12892236]

>>12891206
based and schizopoetrypilled

[Anonymous No.12892451]

>>12890824
came here to post this