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6801830 No.6801830 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw I've read myself stupid

>> No.6801846

Books enhance sequential thought. Sequential thought, pushed beyond the limits of its potential, flips into myth (by myth I mean the implosive, instant, view of a process or sequence). You will accept, for example, nihilism mythically (for the jist of it) and ignore the (quite questionable) several leaps it makes in its forms of argumentation

>> No.6804060

>>6801846
what?

>> No.6804069
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And so it happens that the person who reads a great deal — that is to say, almost the whole day, and recreates himself by spending the intervals in thoughtless diversion, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who is always riding at last forgets how to walk.

Such, however, is the case with many men of learning: they have read themselves stupid.

>> No.6804089

>>6804069

[T]he parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them.

And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

>> No.6804110

>>6804089
>having the show of wisdom without the reality
but luckily all the world's a stage so no one notices anyway

>> No.6804122

How do I not read myself stupid, /lit/?

Hold me

>> No.6804652
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Fuck, i might be going through this, i read a couple of pages off of a book, didn't really understand what the fuck the author was trying to say, Now i have a headache and feel stupid. I also couldn't connect some shit about the book to other events of relevance in my life.

>> No.6804684

>tfw so smart i'm dumb

>> No.6804742

>tfw desperately trying to read myself out of stupidity

I don't buy into the Schopenhauer/Nietzsche books make you dumb meme.

>> No.6804754

>>6801830
You've come full circle. Now you're open for more.

>> No.6804761

>>6801830
>blah blah blah stupid/smart whatever etc.

who gives le fuck
just keep reading. unless you don't want to. then stop.

>> No.6804765

>>6804069
I wonder what he would say about 4chan

Also, friendly reminder that you can't trust virgins