/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13957376]

Based quotes thread
I'll start
>Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent

[Anonymous No.13957389]

The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
> British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey remarked to a friend on the eve of the United Kingdom's entry into the First World War

[Anonymous No.13957399]

>I'll suck your cock, all you guys!"

[Anonymous No.13957777]

>What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written

[Anonymous No.13957811]

>>13957376
t. 15 year old

[Anonymous No.13957820]

>>13957376
>35. Should the tyranny that has descended on our age ever gain the power it seeks and then be challenged enough to feel itself in danger, the mass annihilations that will be carried out by homosexual, transsexual, and especially lesbian commissars will exceed in scale and cruelty anything that has yet happened in known history. Imagine lesbian mulatta commissars with young Martin Sheen face and haircut manning the future Bergen-Belsens, installations that will span tens of miles.

[Anonymous No.13957825]

>>13957399
based Sopranos poster

[Anonymous No.13957829]

Do and do. Thing done.

[Anonymous No.13957871]

>>13957376
>"What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself."
>Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
>What are you waiting for in order to give up?

[Anonymous No.13957890]

>>13957871
Based Cioran

[Anonymous No.13957899]

>En författare kom och avlämnade sitt beställda manuskript och meddelade självbelåtet flämtande att han hade formligen 'brottats med språket'. Ja, det märktes nog på opuset. Men o ve, författaren hade segrat.

[Anonymous No.13957910]

>>13957871
what a beta incel

[Anonymous No.13957917]

>>13957910
sounds like you

[Anonymous No.13959542]

>>13957376
>When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

[Anonymous No.13959922]

>>13957871
I've never read this guy but damn. Wagecucks destroyed.

[Anonymous No.13959988]

>>13957811
take the quote to heart

[Anonymous No.13959991]

>>13957820
Man this guy is an idiot

[Anonymous No.13959999]

>>13957376

That quote never made sense to me. Of course you have to be silent if you can't speak.

[Anonymous No.13960164]

>>13959999
Nice get bro. It only makes sense within context.

[Anonymous No.13960179]

>Me. And me now.

Think about this often. The omission of "then" makes it much more engaging. That time does not distinguish ones self from ones self etc...

[Anonymous No.13960194]

>whereof
>thereof
holy cringe

[Anonymous No.13960221]

>>13959999
It means if you're unsure about what's going to come out of your mouth you should shut the fuck up. Good advice especially right now.

[Anonymous No.13960317]

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

[Anonymous No.13960322]

>>13957376
But all he said was STFU

[Anonymous No.13960473]

>>13960322
Crinkle

[Anonymous No.13960552]

>>13960322
More like, there are things in the world that are beyond words, and that to try to express them with words is futile.

[Anonymous No.13960585]

>>13960552
That's not what he meant you fucking idiot. He meant that if you are in doubt you should shut the fuck up and think on it.

[Anonymous No.13960637]

>>13960585
That's the superficial answer, sure. The real answer was cryptocatholicism.

[Anonymous No.13960660]

>>13960637
The real answer is that you're retarded.

[Anonymous No.13961485]

>>13960585
He was talking about the limits of language and our ability to describe and understand the world.

[Anonymous No.13961496]

>>13957820
Cringe

[Anonymous No.13961524]

>His examiners for the doctoral
examination were Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. At the end of the
exam, as the story goes, Wittgenstein patted one of his examiners on
the back and said, "l knew you wouldn't understand it".

[Anonymous No.13961543]

>In a world divided between theistic enthusiasts and secularist depressives there is little patience for the atheist who nurtures a passionate hatred for God. The mixture of naturalism and blasphemy that characterizes the Sadean text occupies the space of our blindness, to which Bataille’s writings are not unreasonably assimilated. If there is contradiction here it is one that is coextensive with the unconscious; the consequence of a revolt incommensurate with the ontological weight of its object. That God has wrought such loathesomeness without even having existed only exacerbates the hatred pitched against him. An atheism that does not hunger for God’s blood is an inanity, and the anaemic feebleness of secular rationalism has so little appeal that it approximates to an argument for his existence. What is suggested by the Sadean furore is that anyone who does not exult at the thought of driving nails through the limbs of the Nazarene is something less than an atheist; merely a disappointed slave.

Fuck Land and his obscurantist prose, but this is 10/10

[Anonymous No.13961556]

>>13961543
Land's not obscurantist, he's just dense

[Anonymous No.13961562]

>>13957820
> white people with views like mine are well above others, unbreakable, strong as stone
> i am deadly afraid of leasbians and trannies

[Anonymous No.13961569]

>>13959542
What is this from?

[Anonymous No.13961573]

>>13961524
Epic Wittgenstein dabbing on those bluepilled dupes

[Anonymous No.13961629]

>>13961556
I tried to read his book on Bataille and I couldn't understand a word he was saying. I've read more technical books of analytical philosophy, denseness is not an issue. But tell me how this is supposed to be proper prose:
>Beyond political economy there is general economy, and the basic thought at its heart is that of the absolute primacy of wastage, since ‘everything is rich which is to the measure of the universe’ [VII 23]. Bataille insists that all terrestrial economic systems are particular elements within a general energy system, founded upon the unilateral discharge of solar radiation9. The sun’s energy is squandered for nothing (=0), and the circulation of this energy within particular economies can only suspend its final resolution into useless wastage. All energy must ultimately be spent pointlessly and unreservedly, the only questions being where, when, and in whose name this useless discharge will occur. Even more crucially, this discharge or terminal consumption—which Bataille calls ‘expenditure’ (dépense)—is the problem of economics, since on the level of the general energy system ‘resources’ are always in excess, and consumption is liable to relapse into
a secondary (terrestrial) productivity, which Bataille calls ‘rational consumption’.

I don't know what he is trying to say there, but I know that he could have said it clearer.

[Anonymous No.13961640]

>>13961629
he's just saying systems have entropy and all our planet's energy resources come from the sun. then he gets grumpy and calls all human activity(or economy) the pointless and arbitrary unfolding of this wasting of energy, and then I think the last phrase there is about intelligently directed(rational) plans for said wasting of energy.