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Hi /lit/,
I don't really come here that much, and I've always enjoyed literature, I just haven't really gotten into a study of my choosing. I've written many paragraphs and even drawn out diagrams about my own little philosophy about the world, yet strangely I've never actually read anything about philosophy and I highly doubt that if I don't read at least one book in the field of philosophy, then I'd sound like a complete moron. Are there any books that you might recommend me? I've been looking at possible works from Nietzsche, but anything is fine to me.

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>>1445074

>drawn out diagrams about my own little philosophy

Care to share?

>> No.1445090

khalil gibran - the prophet
john ralston saul - equilibrium
jon kabat-zinn - wherever you go, there you are
victor frankl - man's search for meaning
rd laing - the politics of experience

go with my love op

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>>1445079

>> No.1445111

>>1445079
Well, I don't have a working scanner at the moment, and besides, they're more like how philosophical thoughts and actions can trigger and even make shapes, graphs, etc. It sounds complicated to someone outside the box, but whatever...

>> No.1445113

Killing yourself sounds like a shrewd move.

>> No.1445115

>>1445111
nice trips op
and wtf man i gave you a book list and you don't even care!?

>> No.1445118

>>1445115
I'm checking them out right now, sorry. I just wanted to make sure the list was legit, thank you good sir.

>> No.1445139

>>1445118
go with love

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thus spake zarathustra by Nietzsche
existentialism is a humanism by Sartre
Essays by Montaigne
the essays of Schopenhauer

philosophy undergrad here and these are some of my favorites

>> No.1445177

>>1445162
>Essays by Montaigne

Thank you, Anon, for recommending this. Nobody ever fucking talks about Montaigne here, not even as just a personal essayist.

>> No.1445179

zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, sophie's world, happyslapped by a jellyfish, aesop's fables

>> No.1445206

Start with Plato.

>> No.1445230

>>1445177

> Nobody ever fucking talks about Montaigne here

I probably would if my fucking library had a fucking copy of any of his fucking work. Fuck.

>> No.1445240

>>1445179

> zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

You laugh, but I can't think of a better book to get someone to actually think about philosophy instead of thinking about how to sound like someone who is into philosophy.

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>>1445177
>>1445230
I did a 25 min presentation at my university about book 2 and 3 of his Essays and just can't stop enjoying them.