/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3567476]

>mfw Schopenhauer was right all along

[Anonymous No.3567482]

Which face is yours?

[Anonymous No.3567486]

>tfw you refute Schopenhauer's entire philosophical system by confronting his exhortation to asceticism and saying "Nah I don't want to"

[Anonymous No.3567499]

>rail against Schopenhauer and the ascetic ideal
>live life as a shut in, reading, writing and generally living like a hermit

[Anonymous No.3567512]

>>3567482
Freddy's. Seriously, his breakdown stems from massive cognitive dissonance because of his attempt to rebellion against all the wisdom ever, which universally amounts to getting some of that autarkeia/apatheia/ataraxia/upekkha. It has always been a balancing, a correction almost of human nature.

>>3567486
Folly of youth, you haven't suffered enough.

[Anonymous No.3567518]

>>3567512
>his breakdown stems from massive cognitive dissonance because of his attempt to rebellion against all the wisdom ever
No man, it stems from syphilis, or possibly a brain tumor.

[Anonymous No.3567543]

>tfw Schopenhauer trolls his readers into committing suicide because of life's futility while he prances around his living room playing the fiddle and crying with joy

[Anonymous No.3567547]

>>3567499
iktf.

I just treat life like a billion possible pleasures

[Anonymous No.3567555]

I'm only familiar to what he thinks about women.

Do you have any synthesized/abridged sources explaining his other stuff?

Such as reducing Aristotle's niomachean ethics to "moderation is the key".

[Anonymous No.3567562]

>>3567518
As much fun as the other thing was, this.

[Anonymous No.3567589]

>>3567555

Nothing really matters
Art is cool
People who commit suicide aren't weak, damnit

[Anonymous No.3567603]

>mfw faggots read Of Woman and think they understand Schoppy

Try Prize Essay or Fourfold Root and get back to us casuals

[Anonymous No.3568020]

>>3567555
Life's shit, take cover.

[Anonymous No.3568548]

how do i into schoppy?

[Anonymous No.3568583]

>>3567476
the horse incident is open to so many symbolic and philosophical interpretations. there is the christian interpretation - repentance and pity. and there is also the romantic radical aristocratic: the horse, the instrument of the conquering nobility par excellence, reduced, in the 19c, to a petty beast of burden, a symbolic act of solidarity with the overthrown 'master morality' which nietzsche praises so highly.

[Anonymous No.3568586]

>>3568583
I'm going with sheer unadulterated compassion.

[Anonymous No.3568610]

>>3568586
there's that too, which can go with any symbolic interpretation.

[Anonymous No.3568747]

From the age of 45 until his death 27 years later Schopenhauer lived in Frankfurt-am-Main. He lived alone, in ‘rooms’, and every day for 27 years he followed an identical routine. He rose every morning a seven and had a bath but no breakfast: he drank a cup of strong coffee before sitting down at his desk and writing until noon. At noon he ceased work for the day and spent half-an-hour practicing the flute, on which he became quite a skilled performer. Then he went out for lunch at the Englischer Hof. After lunch he returned home and read until four, when he left for his daily walk: he walked for two hours no matter what the weather. At six o’clock he visited the reading room of the library and read The Times. In the evening he attended the theatre or a concert, after which he had dinner at a hotel or restaurant. He got back home between nine and ten and went early to bed. He was willing to deviate from this routine in order to receive visitors.

[Anonymous No.3568750]

With a Spartan rigour which never ceased to amaze his landlord-grocer, Nietzsche would get up every morning when the faintly dawning sky was still grey, and, after washing himself with cold water from the pitcher and china basin in his bedroom and drinking some warm milk, he would, when not felled by headaches and vomiting, work uninterruptedly until eleven in the morning. He then went for a brisk, two-hour walk through the nearby forest or along the edge of Lake Silvaplana (to the north-east) or of Lake Sils (to the south-west), stopping every now and then to jot down his latest thoughts in the notebook he always carried with him. Returning for a late luncheon at the Hôtel Alpenrose, Nietzsche, who detested promiscuity, avoided the midday crush of the table d’hôte in the large dining-room and ate a more or less ‘private’ lunch, usually consisting of a beefsteak and an ‘unbelievable’ quantity of fruit, which was, the hotel manager was persuaded, the chief cause of his frequent stomach upsets. After luncheon, usually dressed in a long and somewhat threadbare brown jacket, and armed as usual with notebook, pencil, and a large grey-green parasol to shade his eyes, he would stride off again on an even longer walk, which sometimes took him up the Fextal as far as its majestic glacier. Returning ‘home’ between four and five o’clock, he would immediately get back to work, sustaining himself on biscuits, peasant bread, honey (sent from Naumburg), fruit and pots of tea he brewed for himself in the little upstairs ‘dining-room’ next to his bedroom, until, worn out, he snuffed out the candle and went to bed around 11 p.m.

[Anonymous No.3568792]

>>3568747
>>3568750
Source on these for the love of God

[Anonymous No.3568795]

>>3568548
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourfold_root_of_the_sufficient_principle_of_reason

[Anonymous No.3568800]

>>3568792
i just googled the quotes

[Anonymous No.3568837]

>>3568792
I merely googled <name> daily routine to retrieve them. There is more of this type of thing though:

http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/20/daily-routines-writers/

I'm fascinated as well by these type of things.