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Is Physiognomy correct?

>> No.23342802

>>23342786
Yeah but it has limits. For example, you can tell Schopenhauer is intelligent by his physiognomy but you can't tell that he's a massive fucking faggot. And physiognomy is always only a general trend so it's only has a small amount of accuracy on individual basis. Also, most people don't understand physiognomy. They think ugly = bad physiognomy when that's not the case, Sartre is a good example of this, his physiognomy is average yet his looks are terrible.

>> No.23342863

>>23342786
No, sometimes God puts the most beautiful souls in the ugliest and most deformed bodies.
e.g. Socrates

>> No.23342890

>>23342863
Socrates was just Plato's McGuffin

>> No.23342946

>>23342890
You do realize that Plato is not our only contemporary source about him? Do you even know Xenophon and Aristophanes?

>> No.23343247

>>23342890
>McMuffin
Don't you mean mouthpiece

>> No.23344042

>>23342946
>Xenophon
Not reliable
>Aristophanes
He was in on the joke. His Socrates was a caricature of Plato's invention

>> No.23344095

>>23342786
Don't think so. People love coming up with sophisticated justifications for unreliable gut judgments, doesn't seem to be more than that

>>23344042
Wasn't Plato like five years old when The Clouds was written? Precocious little fellow

>> No.23344129

>>23342863
Socrates was really bad at death though, holy shit. Reading his thoughts on death was painful to me.

>> No.23344189

The remark Schopenhauer made that great men always have a glint of seriousness and intensity to their face is correct. You do not get the sense a genius is ever fully content. There is always a look in his eyes of motion, of moving forward.

>> No.23344237

>>23342786
Obviously.

>> No.23344872

>>23342946
You do realize there exists such a thing as a “stock character”?

>> No.23345722

>>23342786
Sometimes but not all the time

>> No.23345729

>>23342786
Only as correct as your judgement. Looks can be deceiving but not all the time.

>> No.23345730

>>23342786
Idk but people who are ugly on the outside tend to be so on the inside as well I have found.

>> No.23345745

>>23342786
Maybe for some things. To think it can tell you everything about a person means you don't know how the brain works.

>> No.23345771

>>23342786
To an extent. I’ve written about it.

>> No.23345782
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23345782

physiognomycels be seething at empathychads

>> No.23345785

Yeah but in the way he describes it. As in not everyone is qualified on reading stuff in it.

>> No.23345791

>>23345782
Top image:
>An angry college nerd
Bottom image:
>A convicted serial rapist who preys upon foreign white women taking holidays to his country