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Any good books with short sayings by philosophers or mystics or something like that? I mean just one sentence or a couple, compressed thoughts, like zen koans or aphorisms

>> No.22079078

>>22079059
yeah there are a few

>> No.22079085

>>22079059
The Book of Disquiet

>> No.22079089

>>22079059
Nietzsche’s faggot ass buttfuck science (or whatever it’s actually called idk I’m too lazy to look it up)

>> No.22079095

>>22079059
>>22079059
Gateless Gate
Gospel of Thomas
>>22079089
Nietzsche didn't really write "aphorisms." a lot of them are multiple paragraphs.

>> No.22079136

shestov

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This: https://www.amazon.com/100-Pages-Just-N-Word/dp/B09L4M26D9/ref=asc_df_B09L4M26D9/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=615302487812&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1200571712653622305&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004072&hvtargid=pla-1723499679257&psc=1
Also this:
https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Covid-War-Investigative-Report/dp/1541703804?maas=maas_adg_94FD984F97D38E53588D1C9FFCBBC6DC_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas&gclid=CjwKCAjwscGjBhAXEiwAswQqNKcjWtPcNuSQE_kvsLmXdJpQ7Z7aCG_8oi5c0ASPogJZUrUSupxOLBoCYpMQAvD_BwE
This one is like hella philosophy and mysticism and like something like that you know I feel it it just giving me those vibes of like uncertainty and discovery like absolutely and it's best seller so it must bee good I'm reading it right now look

>> No.22079170

Cioran, Baltasar Gracian, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Antonio Porchia, La Rochefoucauld, Chamfort and there might be other but those are the ones I can think of right now.

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the cherubinic wanderer - Angelus Silesius

memorable deeds and sayings - Valerius Maximus

certain chapters in Plutarch's moralia like the one about spartan laconism

>> No.22079271

>>22079059
Publilius Syrus Aphorisms in the Loeb library series
He exists only in fragments though originally he was a playwright and poet.

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>> No.22079470

Cioran's The Trouble with Being Born is a pretty interesting litlte book of thoughts, meditations, quips, and aphorisms. Just don't live your life based off the shit he says in there or you'll turn into some mad, melancholic, nocturnal, existentialist, aristocratic fascist night gaunt,

>> No.22079477

Bartlett's

>> No.22079541

>>22079059

https://archive.org/details/perennialphilosp035505mbp

>> No.22079794

>>22079085
>>22079089
>>22079095
>>22079136
>>22079150
>>22079170
>>22079238
>>22079271
>>22079403
>>22079470
>>22079477
>>22079541
Thanks bros

>> No.22080882

>>22079059
Sayings and Anecdotes by Diogenes of Sinope

>> No.22080893

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

>> No.22080909

Emerson wrote essays mostly but you can almost just pick random sentences and they will be quotable aphorisms.

Here's three somewhat random sentences from the Scholar:

>Genius always looks forward.
>Great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page.
>Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty
Not saying you should actually just read random sentences out of context, but you might still be interested in his essays despite not being truly aphoristic

>> No.22081547

>>22080882
based