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19925820 No.19925820 [Reply] [Original]

Name one intelligent person who wasn't utterly depressed.

>> No.19925834

Me desu

>> No.19925837

Diogenes

>> No.19926568

>>19925820
me

>> No.19926592

>>19925820
his name? albert einstein

>> No.19926600
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19926600

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOu-QxtbI4

>> No.19926636

Spinoza

>> No.19926639

GK Chesterton.

>> No.19926644

Roman Polanski

>> No.19926666

Goethe, Foucault, Plato, Wilde

>> No.19926687

>>19925834
fpbp

>> No.19926698
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>>19925820

>> No.19926699

Andre Agassi.

>> No.19926720

>>19926666
>Plato
Isn't there an anecdote that nobody saw him laugh?

>> No.19926744

Socrates was not depressed at all. He disapproved writing and reading.

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>>19925820

>> No.19926766
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19926766

>>19926758
hell yeah; love him

>> No.19926809
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19926809

NAME ONE NIHILIST WHO WAS INTELLIGENT.

>> No.19926829

>>19926809
https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/snuffing-the-spark-a-nihilistic-account-of-moral-progress/
"One can be a ‘nihilist’ and yet be all for ‘moral progress.’ The difference is that you are advocating for cooperation, for hewing to heuristics that promote prosocial behaviour. More importantly, you have no delusions of somehow standing outside contingency, of ‘rational’ immunity to radical transformations in your cognitive environments. You don’t have the luxury of burning magical holes through actual problems with your human spark. You see the ecology of things, and so you intervene."

https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/dismiss-dis/
"The semantic nihilist, such as myself, famously disagrees with this theory. <...> What Milkowski seems to be arguing here is that… hmm… Good question! Either he’s claiming the semantic nihilist cannot argue otherwise without contradicting his theory, which is the whole point of arguing otherwise. Or he’s claiming the semantic nihilistic cannot argue against his theory of truth because, well, his theory of truth is *true*. Either he’s saying something trivial, or he’s begging the question! Obviously so, given the issue between him and the semantic nihilist is the question of the nature of truth talk."

https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/the-point-being/
"Now consider the manifest absurdity:

It is true that there is no such thing as truth.

If *truth talk* belonged to system A, and *such thing talk* belonged to system X, then it really could be true that there’s no such thing as truth. But given conscious insensitivity to this, we would have no way of discerning the distinct cognitive ecologies involved, and so presume One Big Happy Cognition by default. If there is no such thing as truth, we would cry, then no statement could be true.
How does one argue against that? short knowledge of the heuristic, fractionate structure of human cognition. Small wonder we’ve been so baffled by our attempts to make sense of ourselves! Our intuitions walk us into the same traps over and over."

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>>19926829

>> No.19926845

>>19926600
Based. I love this weirdo

>> No.19926965

>>19925834
This guy

>> No.19927041

>>19925837
>sat in a barrel all day
>not depressed

>> No.19928004

>>19926600
what are some other intellectual YouTubers like him, anons?

>> No.19928084

>>19926666
>Goethe
Literally attempted anhero

>> No.19928099

>>19927041
>didn't sit in a barrel all day
>depressed
If only you washed onions...

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>> No.19928455

>>19925834
>>19926568
these guys

>> No.19928462

>>19926666
>Foucault
Depressed as fuck and attempted suicide at ENS

>> No.19928494

I want to leave 4chan
where the fuck do I go
is this the only place that isn't completely run by women and trannies?

>> No.19928590

>>19928494
outside is not run by anyone

>> No.19928598

>>19925820
Thomas Aquinas

>> No.19928677

You should be
only a little wise,
never too wise.
The happiest people
throughout their lives
are those who know just enough.

You should be
only a little wise,
never too wise.
A wise man’s heart
is seldom glad
if he’s truly wise.

>> No.19928943

>>19925820
nobody to relate to and therefore lonely

>> No.19929192

>>19926809
>>19926842
NAME ONE TRIPFAGGOT WHO ISNT A COMPLETE AND UTTER DIPSHIT

>> No.19929285

>>19925820
A lot of them, you remember the ones who are because you want to justify your own depression

>> No.19929379

>He's a pedophile
Figures

>> No.19929625

>>19929379
Was he really? Proof?

>> No.19929632

Plato?

>> No.19929634

>>19929625
he was a man

>> No.19929644

>>19929634
BASED

>> No.19929647

>>19928451
OP said people who are intelligent

>> No.19929663

>>19925820
comfy pic em cioran pbuh

>> No.19929669

I would happily trade all my creativity just for a chance at being normal

>> No.19929673

>>19928590
outside is run by normalmongoloids

>> No.19929758

>>19926809
>>19926842
Lol, based

>> No.19929772

My niggas Euler and Gauss come to mind. They danced with the most harsh discipline of all, were both firm Christians and birthed many children.

>> No.19929852

Scientists

>> No.19929858

>>19925820
Henry Thoreau

>> No.19930307

>>19929858
tbf you don't really have time to be depressed when you're non stop chasing night diver rats or however they're called in english, from your crops before they eat the whole fields.

>> No.19930347

>>19926666
These are all VERY poor examples. Satanic quads of deception.
>>19925820
Most STEM geniuses tend to have phlegmatic temperaments. Turing, Euler, von Neumann all are all good examples.

>> No.19930374

>>19925820
Charles Sanders Peirce
>I do not admit that pessimists are, at the same time, thoroughly sane, and in addition are endowed in normal measure with intellectual vigour; and my reasons for thinking so are two. The first is, that the difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic. Now, the majority of every race depart but little from the norm of that race. In order to present my other reason, I am obliged to recognise three types of pessimists. The first type is often found in exquisite and noble natures of great force of original intellect whose own lives are dreadful histories of torment due to some physical malady. Leopardi is a famous example. We cannot but believe, against their earnest protests, that if such men had had ordinary health, life would have worn for them the same colour as for the rest of us. Meantime, one meets too few pessimists of this type to affect the present question. The second is the misanthropical type, the type that makes itself heard. It suffices to call to mind the conduct of the famous pessimists of this kind, Diogenes the Cynic, Schopenhauer, Carlyle, and their kin with Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, to recognise them as diseased minds. The third is the philanthropical type, people whose lively sympathies, easily excited, become roused to anger at what they consider the stupid injustices of life. Being easily interested in everything, without being overloaded with exact thought of any kind, they are excellent raw material for littérateurs: witness Voltaire. No individual remotely approaching the calibre of a Leibniz is to be found among them.

>> No.19930382

>>19925820
If they were really intelligent they would have figured out how not to be depressed

>> No.19930392
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>>19926829
>dark YA fantasy's writer blog
Kill yourself

>> No.19930415

>>19925820
Johann Sebastian Bach

>> No.19930416

>>19929192
I like Old Oligarch on /wg/

>> No.19930459

>>19925820
All the big STEM niggas

>> No.19930485

>>19925820
Noam Chomsky

>> No.19930507
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>>19930307
...what? You know his life was nothing but leisure, right? He lived each day doing what he pleased, wrote constant journal entries, and when his crops didn't do so well he bummed some money off his family.

>> No.19930550

>>19925820
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix

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>>19928004
JF Gariépy

https://odysee.com/@JFGTonight:0
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4bVl8YKrVKAr6hZlvzkakQ

>> No.19930576

>>19930507
I remember in one chapter of Walden he had to spend quite a big amount of time watching the field because the crops would be in danger from those night diver rats. He wasn't really pleased with that. He succeed in protecting his food nonetheless

>> No.19930799

>>19925820
I think Trump is smart

>> No.19930848

>>19925820
I'm utterly depressed. Not intelligent though.

>> No.19930964

>>19930799
He's just a business man born into privilege.
>Inb4 accusations of SJWness

>> No.19930993

>>19925820
Only retarded pseuds get depressed.

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>>19926600

No data, no deep reflections or rigorousness. Just pure wishful thinking. Most ~145+ IQ people are finance Chads or in elite law firms. And they truly care about nothing but sex, money, and the small pleasures in life. Or they might be bugmen scientists, mathematicians, or computer programmers. Whatever spark a small minority of these intellectually gifted people had in childhood is quickly snuffed out through social pressure and eventually peer rejection and refusing access to sex. America is a last man power fantasy lol, and the ugliness of the situation we're in will do nothing to ease your pain, and the lies you tell yourself will never make your pride and contempt cause you any less pain. Your worth as a human is determined by how well you perform work, and manage your own finances + lookz. In America, we are all human tools, as Aristotle would say. And we are meant to serve one another as social equals. If you are not performing a service for society or the state you refused your social equality. Thus your access to friends and sex. And America is becoming more equal and democratic over time, both politically and culturally. Inequality in payment received for service is the only sacrifice Americans are willing to make, and it is a sacrifice for the sake of other more important forms of equality

>> No.19931110

>>19930560
intelligent, anon.

>> No.19931126

>>19931062
did she died?

>> No.19931129

>>19931126

lol no just a woman

>> No.19931162

>>19930576
Nearly all of Walden is him glorifying the wildlife around Walden Pond, I don't think one minor setback affected his lifelong demeanor.

>> No.19931168

bukowski

>> No.19931176

>>19931129
lmao dumb bitch

>> No.19931372

STEM geniuses tend to be happy, so long as they avoid lonely autistic spergdom.

Humanities "geniuses" are almost never happy, no matter how much wealth and success they earn.

>> No.19931394

>>19931062
Shuttup commie.