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What should one read in order to stop being in love with their own wit? I feel like a disgusting haughty pig, and must get humbled. That love should be directed to the outside world instead. Zingers don't affirm the vastness of life.

>> No.23377204

Biographies of witty people getting their comeuppance.

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I like to eat a whole lot of passionfruits and chocolate. It makes me do the most incredible farts. They have a deep, rich, and utterly exotic odour. I let one hotly seep out and slowly but deeply inhale that mesermising miasma. Oh god, yes....

>> No.23377248

>>23376504
>I feel like a disgusting haughty pig, and must get humbled
Go out and buy a humbler then
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Black-Adjustable-Wood-Luxurious-Humbler-Curved/5078537498
You're welcome

>> No.23377319

>>23376504
Based sentiment, OP, but don't let that go to your head. I'm not sure what to recommend you because this is a very individual concern, but I found myself humbled not long ago reading the work of a female scholar, who happens to posses a >.999s IQ, speaking on topics within her area of expertise. It's been a while since I had to do so much looking up definitions and contemplating the related concepts just to finish a short essay. I recommend taking up the work of a subject of which you only possess a superficial knowledge or none at all, and read the work of accomplished scholars who are writing for an erudite audience. Spend time thinking about all the many subjects of which you are ignorant, and ruminate on the fact that the number of questions you have thought to ask is infinitely dwarfed by the number of questions you will never think to ask.

>> No.23377336

>>23376504
Read Chesterton, glut on witticisms until you're sick of them.

>> No.23377677

>>23377204
Such as?

>> No.23378038

>>23377221
Always good to see the old 4channel spirit kicking around on this board

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>>23376504
Of course you will feel smart if all you do is consoom books. Reading the most difficult books is nothing compared to creating something new.
The final goal of reading "intellectual" books should always be creation.
Write your own stuff, make art, solve exercises(if you are reading stem books), transform everything you have poured through literature into yourself, into something new.
When you feel useless and stupid, thats when the real magic happens.

>> No.23378294

>>23378221
What if your problem is feeling so useless and sometimes downright harmful that you don't produce anything out of fear of serving the wrong purpose

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>>23376504
Pic related of course

>> No.23379344

>>23378395
Based

>> No.23379371

>>23376504
One in that situation could start by reading his or her own written, typed, or spoken works, think about his or her actions that he or she did during the day and up to 5 years in the past. Then think about whether it's an agreeable course of treating others and the experienced world. If it isn't, which your post makes clear, then one must not only have thóúght about how to ameliorate, but also make the required action.

>> No.23380848

>>23377336
Bantz are not the answer

>> No.23380857

Start a philosophy thread and state your views about a certain topic therein then wait for us to tear it into pieces. Its that simple anon. Its a plus if its about kant, or hegel or the esoteric eleatics.