/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14702728]

The best quotes.

Post the best quotes you have.

[Anonymous No.14702731]

>>14702728

[Anonymous No.14702732]

>>14702728
there is no facts only interpretation.

[Anonymous No.14702739]

>>14702732
i am so glad our boy nietzsche created nihilism and post structuralism

[Anonymous No.14702740]

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[Anonymous No.14702743]

>>14702732
If you don't drink water, you'll die. Can that be interpreted as well?

[Anonymous No.14702751]

"actually analysing the anime girls's face[Asuka], they're really quite ugly."

[Anonymous No.14702752]

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[Anonymous No.14702757]

>>14702743
Yes, you merely think I have died.

But does not interpretation necessitate a something?

[Anonymous No.14702759]

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[Anonymous No.14702768]

>>14702757
What kinda dumb-fuck juice do you drink?

[Anonymous No.14702769]

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[Anonymous No.14702779]

>>14702743
That is an interpretation (of reality). You are a human, not God.

[Anonymous No.14702783]

>>14702728
That quote is from Rudyard Kipling btw

[Anonymous No.14702821]

If you do not pass the barrier of the patriarchs or if your thinking road is not blocked, whatever you think, whatever you do, is like a tangling ghost
-Mumon

[Anonymous No.14702875]

>>14702743
not sure if this is bait or if you're just low iq

[Anonymous No.14702884]

Gradually, I began to hate them- Nietzche

[Anonymous No.14702920]

>>14702732
neet was a retard. this we know

[Anonymous No.14703061]

“An uncommon prudence is habitual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.” -Melville

[Anonymous No.14703068]

“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.”
André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism

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[Anonymous No.14703286]

>>14702728
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor" - Alexis Carrel

[Anonymous No.14703580]

I was altogether unacquainted with the man, and never once saluted him by name : but who in London hath not heard of his dissolute and licentious living ; his fond disguising of a Master of Art with ruffianly hair, unseemly apparel, and more unseemly company ; his vain-glorious and Thrasonical braving ; his piperly extemporizing and Tarletonizing ; his apish counterfeiting of every ridiculous and absurd toy ; his fine cozening of jugglers, and finer juggling with cozeners ; his villanous cogging and foisting ; his monstrous swearing and horrible forswearing ; his impious profaning of sacred texts ; his other scandalous and blasphemous raving ; his riotous and outragious surfeiting ; his continual shifting of lodgings; his plausible mustering and banqueting of roysterly acquaintance at his first coming ; his beggarly departing in every hostess's debt ; his
infamous resorting to the Bankside, Shoreditch, Southwark, and other filthy haunts ; his obscure lurking in basest corners ; his pawning of his sword, cloak, and what not, when money came short; his impudent pamphleting, fantastical interluding, and desperate libelling, [And so on; the sentence continues for some time].

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[Anonymous No.14703627]

>So Anzud says to holy Lugalbanda: "The power of running be in your thighs! Never grow tired! Strength be in your arms! Stretch your arms wide, may your arms never become weak! Moving like the sun, like Inana, like the seven storms of Iškur, leap like a flame, blaze like lightning! Go wherever you look to, set foot wherever you cast your glance, reach wherever your heart desires, loosen your shoes in whatever place your heart has named to you!

Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird

[Anonymous No.14703633]

>>14702728
>The invalids are the great danger to humanity—not the evil men, not the ‘predatory animals.’ Those people who are, from the outset, failures, oppressed, broken—they are the ones, the weakest, who most undermine life among human beings, who in the most perilous way poison and question our trust in life, in humanity, in ourselves….They wander around among us like personifications of reproach, like warnings to us, as if health, success, strength, pride, and a feeling of power were inherently depraved things, for which people must atone some day, atone bitterly. How they thirst to be hangmen! Among them there are plenty of people disguised as judges seeking revenge. They always have the word ‘Justice’ in their mouths, like poisonous saliva, with their mouths always pursed, constantly ready to spit at anything which does not look discontented and goes on its way in good spirits….They are all men of resentment, these physiologically impaired and worm-eaten men, a totally quivering earthly kingdom of subterranean revenge, inexhaustible, insatiable in its outbursts against the fortunate, and equally in its masquerades of revenge, its pretexts for revenge. When would they attain their ultimate, most refined, most sublime triumph of revenge? Undoubtedly, if they could succeed in pushing their own wretchedness, all misery in general, into the consciences of the fortunate, so that the latter one day might begin to be ashamed of their good fortune and perhaps would say to themselves, ‘It’s shameful to be fortunate. There’s too much misery!'

[Anonymous No.14703639]

>>14702732
>basically state the central problem of epistemology, being in general
>triggered scientism brainlets rush in

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[Anonymous No.14703709]

>>14702728
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>>14702740
Only faggots wikiquote Nietzsche. Actually read him, you will find much better quotes from him.
"Indeed, you couldn't wear a better mask, you people of today, than that of your own face! Who could recognize you! [...]
This, oh this is the bitterness for my bowls, that I can stand you neither naked nor clothed, you people of the present! [...]
For you speak thus: 'We are real entirely, and without beliefs and superstition!' Thus you stick out your chests, even without chests! [...]
You are sterile: therefore you lack beliefs. But whoever had to create also had his prophetic dreams and astrological signs - and believed in believing! - You are half-opened gates, at which the gravediggers wait. And this is your reality: 'Everything deserves to perish'". (TSZ, Part 2, On the Land of Education)

[Anonymous No.14703722]

>>14703709
>pseud joins the conversation
>quotes TSZ
like pottery

[Anonymous No.14703731]

>>14703722
Nothing wrong with Zarathustra, fellow Parmenidean

[Anonymous No.14703753]

>>14702728
the only acceptable answer

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[Anonymous No.14703891]

>>14702743
Typical brainlet response

[Anonymous No.14703916]

>>14703590
I thought that was going to be a Trump quote

[Anonymous No.14703925]

[mitchell heisman - suicide not(...) No.14703941]

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>>14703286
Memes

[Anonymous No.14703999]

“-Teresa dice -dijo Sancho- que ate bien mi dedo con vuestra merced, y que hablen cartas y callen barbas, porque quien destaja no baraja, pues más vale un toma que dos te daré. Y yo digo que el consejo de la mujer es poco, y el que no lo toma es loco.”

[Anonymous No.14704015]

>>14702768
water

[Anonymous No.14704080]

> I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they, all of them, those that merge, those that part, those that never meet, and nothing else, yes, something else, that I'm something quite different, a quite different thing, a wordless thing in an empty place, a hard shut dry cold black place, where nothing stirs, nothing speaks, and that I listen, and that I seek, like a caged beast born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born in a cage and dead in a cage, born and then dead

[Anonymous No.14704092]

>>14702732
Is that translated correctly?

[Anonymous No.14704097]

> “…what am I if not a ray from some long-dead star? […] dying in the flames of excessive potentiality?”

[Anonymous No.14704104]

>>14703074
Unironically true. people only care about narratives, reality is easily tertiary.

[Anonymous No.14704111]

“Everything that is of my kind, in nature and history, speaks to me, praises me, spurs me on, comforts me - everything else I don’t hear or forget right away. We are always only in our own company.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

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[Anonymous No.14704149]

>>14702783
my fucking sides

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[Anonymous No.14704368]

>>14702739
But that's wrong, you fucking retard.

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[Anonymous No.14704374]

>>14703753
But the message of the book is the exact opposite of this out-of-context quote, you maroon.

[Anonymous No.14704378]

>>14704370
Unfathomably and irrefutably based.

[Anonymous No.14704389]

>>14703068
based breton rising up against chads and roasties

[Anonymous No.14704411]

>>14703068
breton got extremely butthurt that Dali starting ironically supporting Hitler and making fun of Lenin. He literally hosted a sort of trial against Dali with the other surrealists in which Dali pointed out that their manifesto claimed to be transgressing all possible morals and taste meaning they shouldn't care about hitler.

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[Anonymous No.14704624]

>>14702728
If we affirm one single moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event—and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

and

“Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.”
-Maurice Merleau-Ponty

[Anonymous No.14704629]

>with a car you can go anywhere

[Anonymous No.14704667]

>>14703925
It gets better "I mean, if you and I were in a line moving towards what we knew were gas chambers, I’d rather have a go at taking one of the guards with me; but they were always submissive.”

[Anonymous No.14704715]

>>14702769
e-reader virgins BLOWN THE FUCK OUT

[Anonymous No.14705163]

>>14702728
Even extreme grief can may ultimately vex itself in violence - but more generally takes the form of apathy." - Joseph Conrad

>>14702743
Yeah philosophers will argue for anything no matter how ridiculous it may appear and the responses to this post are no different

[Anonymous No.14705193]

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[Anonymous No.14705274]

>>14704356
Daniel Dennett is the most insufferable FAT FUCK on the planet

And trying to claim the importance of philosophy is FUCKING LAUGHABLE, I say this as somebody who did some philosophy classes at university, and also I saw Dennett in person - he was a STUPID FAT FUCK

[Anonymous No.14705283]

>>14704370
Birds definitely CAN panic.

But yeah he's right that none of us will ever know reality completely, we just have to do the best we can.

[Anonymous No.14705438]

>>14702732
Is that a fact?

[Anonymous No.14705440]

>>14705274
Well, I don't know about all that, but you certainly seem like a pleasant slim temperance yourself, my friend.

[Anonymous No.14705567]

>>14705274
I've been reading him a lot lately and while I share most of his general ideas I agree he is the definition of an insufferable boomer

[Anonymous No.14705606]

The most prescient man who ever was to exist.

[Anonymous No.14705702]

>>14705438
the irony is is that the retard who posted this probably doesn't understand Nietzsche's message, in the Gay Science he ends his passage on facts/those of the "natural sciences" that what he wrote is merely an interpretation - and that that is how it should be (thus yes, making his interpretation just another interpretation by his own admittance)

[Anonymous No.14705748]

>>14702884
Whos them

[Anonymous No.14705881]

>>14704603
who is this ?

[Anonymous No.14705903]

>>14705193
>>14705606
we're already in hell, aren't we ?

[Anonymous No.14705910]

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully!"
George W. Bush Jr., former president of the United States

[Anonymous No.14705933]

>>14705606
unironically powerful.

[Anonymous No.14705970]

>From one glance, you can see a great advantage in Christian mysteries over those from antiquity. Ancient religions had no connection to man; it was merely a subject for philosophy or songs for poets. Our mysteries, on the contrary, speak to us; they contain the secrets of our nature. It is no longer about some futile arrangement of numbers, but about the health and happiness of everyone. The man who everyday feels his ignorance and weakness, could he reject the mysteries of Jesus Christ?

[Anonymous No.14705980]

A rain had fallen from some warmer region in the skies when the cold here was to an extreme. Every drop was frozen wherever it fell it fell in the trees, and clung to the limbs and sprigs as if it had been fastened by hooks of steel. The earth was never more universally covered with snow, and the rain had frozen upon a crust on the surface which shone with the brightness of burnished silver. The icicles on every sprig glowed in all the luster of diamonds. Every tree was a chandelier of cut glass. I have seen a Queen of France with eighteen million livres of diamonds upon her person and i declare that all the charms of her face and figure added to all the glitter of her jewels did not make an impression on me equal to that presented by every shrub. The whole world was glittering with precious stones. ~John Adams in his later years

[Anonymous No.14706011]

>>14705970
basé

[Anonymous No.14706022]

>>14702769
NO-NO PLEASE COME BACK LOOK MY K-KOBO HERE LOOK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAHHAAAAAAÀAAAAAAAÆAAAAAAAÄAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.14706043]

[Anonymous No.14706047]

“It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.”
― Eric Hoffer

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[Anonymous No.14706068]

>>14705881
Dugin.

[Anonymous No.14706093]

>>14706022
kwite based anon, what's on your kobo?

[Anonymous No.14706102]

>>14705970
Powerful, based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.14706119]

>>14706068
what books do you suggest ?

[Anonymous No.14706177]

>>14706119
Not him but from what I've seen he is quite suspect. He is the former adviser to Putin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBuzf7uYUqE

[Anonymous No.14706213]

>>14706177
>"Putin bad"
>links 50 minute video by a youtuber with a comic book character as an avatar

[Anonymous No.14706246]

>>14702728
Weininger
>Will! that is: Will yourself entirely
>Mistrust of oneself is a condition for all other mistrust.
>Only from within himself can a person know the depth of the world: in him lie the interconnections of the world.

Jung
>“When a summit of life is reached, when the bud unfolds and from the lesser the greater emerges, then, as Nietzsche says, “One becomes Two,” and the greater figure, which one always was but which remained invisible, appears to the lesser personality with the force of a revelation.
>He who is truly and hopelessly little will always drag the revelation of the greater down to the level of his littleness, and will never understand that the day of judgment for his littleness has dawned. But the man who is inwardly great will know that the long expected friend of his soul, the immortal one, has now really come, “to lead captivity captive”: that is, to seize hold of him by whom this immortal had always been confined and held prisoner, and to make his life flow into that greater life-a moment of deadliest peril!

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[Anonymous No.14706351]

>>14706068
Very based

[Anonymous No.14706352]

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[Anonymous No.14706418]

The mainspring of an individual is his creative Will. This Will is the sum of his tendencies, his destiny,
his inner truth. It is one with the force that makes the birds sing and flowers bloom; as inevitable as gravity,
as implicit as a bowel movement, it informs alike atoms and men and suns.

To the man who knows this Will, there is no why or why not, no can or cannot; he is!

There is no known force that can turn an apple into an alley cat; there is no known force that can turn a man
from his Will. This is the triumph of genius; that, surviving the centuries, enlightens the world.

This force burns in every man

There are four obstacles that prevents humans from achieving and performing their
True Will, all of which are connected with fear: the fear of incompetence, the fear of the opinion of others,
the fear of hurting others, and the fear of insecurity. these must be overcome

"The Will must be freed of its fetters. The ruthless examination and destruction of taboos, complexes, frustrations,
dislikes, fears and disgusts hostile to the Will is essential to progress

[Anonymous No.14707082]

>>14702728
here you go

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[Anonymous No.14707137]

>>14707092
who knew lovecraft was so based?

[Anonymous No.14707213]

If you're happy, you're doing God's will upon the Earth.

[Anonymous No.14707225]

>>14703722
Context