/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17008272]

Do you ever feel that you have a higher destiny than the plebs?

It's quite taxing on the soul to know this...

[Anonymous No.17008277]

>>17008272
Good literature thread.

[Anonymous No.17008329]

>>17008272
No. I love plebs

[Anonymous No.17008344]

It was in this fashion that I then spoke to Dionysius. I did not explain
everything to him, nor did he ask me to, for he claimed to have already
a sufficient knowledge of many, and the most important, points because
of what he had heard others say about them. Later, I hear, he wrote a
book on the matters we talked about, putting it forward as his own teaching,
not what he had learned from me. Whether this is true I do not know. I
know that certain others also have written on these same matters; but who
they are they themselves do not know. So much at least I can affirm with
confidence about any who have written or propose to write on these
questions, pretending to a knowledge of the problems with which I am
concerned, whether they claim to have learned from me or from others
or to have made their discoveries for themselves: it is impossible, in my
opinion, that they can have learned anything at all about the subject. There
is no writing of mine about these matters, nor will there ever be one. For
this knowledge is not something that can be put into words like other
sciences; but after long-continued intercourse between teacher and pupil,
in joint pursuit of the subject, suddenly, like light flashing forth when a
fire is kindled, it is born in the soul and straighway nourishes itself. And
this too I know: if these matters are to be expounded at all in books or
lectures, they would best come from me. Certainly I am harmed not least
of all if they are misrepresented. If I thought they could be put into written
words adequate for the multitude, what nobler work could I do in my life
than to compose something of such great benefit to mankind and bring
to light the nature of things for all to see? But I do not think that the
“examination,” as it is called, of these questions would be of any benefit
to men, except to a few, i.e., to those who could with a little guidance
discover the truth by themselves. Of the rest, some would be filled with
an ill-founded and quite unbecoming disdain, and some with an exaggerated
and foolish elation, as if they had learned something grand.

[Anonymous No.17009370]

>>17008272
Everyone should