/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7083297]

What's the best advice you've ever got from a self-help book?

I'll start:
>"Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today"
>"Get what you can, and what you get hold"
>"Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"

- The Way to Wealth, Benjamin Franklin

[Anonymous No.7083713]

>>7083297

[Anonymous No.7083718]

"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"

[Anonymous No.7083732]

The seven crucial habits of histories most highly successful and prestigious horse ministers.
1 sway my way
2 don't come and go like you do
3 yeah I need to know all about you
4 don't stray
5 don't ever go away
6 don't let me drown
7 let me down
Yeah.

[Anonymous No.7083739]

>>7083297
no book, but a poem
>pic related
it really helped me to get "alpha", meaning doing what i think is right, not giving a fuck about other's opinions. there is also a "motivation pic" saying "why does the lion care what the sheeps have to say", and i couldnt really identify with this.
but the poem to the left is just great. never disappoint yourself, do what you think is right to do, dont make yourself unhappy because of others

[Anonymous No.7083741]

baqtureadit

[Anonymous No.7083743]

>>7083739
thats shitty and self centered of you

[Anonymous No.7083757]

>The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

[Anonymous No.7083758]

>>7083739
That poem is kitschy as fuck

[Anonymous No.7083760]

>>7083739
>yfw your notion of doing what you think is right is nothing but the combined internalised opinions of others

welcome to ideology

[Anonymous No.7083772]

>>7083760
>>7083758
>>7083743
y-you too

[Anonymous No.7083931]

>>7083297
>tfw early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead

[Anonymous No.7083933]

>>7083739
if you want to go full edge:

>(T)he problem with the other origin of the “good,” of the good man, as the person of ressentiment has thought it out for himself, demands some conclusion. It is not surprising that the lambs should bear a grudge against the great birds of prey, but that is no reason for blaming the great birds of prey for taking the little lambs. And when the lambs say among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and he who least resembles a bird of prey, who is rather its opposite, a lamb,—should he not be good?" then there is nothing to carp with in this ideal's establishment, though the birds of prey may regard it a little mockingly, and maybe say to themselves, "We bear no grudge against them, these good lambs, we even love them: nothing is tastier than a tender lamb."
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

[Anonymous No.7083937]

JUST DO IT
MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

[Anonymous No.7083964]

>>7083760
Ideology's just a nonsense word sad nerds love to whip out to show how above the rabble they are because heh why would I want to be a good person? Sound like ideology to me heh

Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.7083969]

>>7083933
can you tell me the page/capital of this? so i can read it in german in my book for a better understanding

[Anonymous No.7083972]

>>7083969
capital -> chapter
damn those false friends

[Anonymous No.7083997]

>>7083964
>nonsense word sad nerds love to whip out
are you illiterate or retarded?

[Anonymous No.7084004]

>>7083743
it's shitty and self-centered to do what makes you happy?

[Anonymous No.7084116]

>>7083937
>JUST DO IT
>MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE
>NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

oh, that's cool

>dream is to get married, have kids and get six pack abs

ya blew it

[Anonymous No.7084121]

>>7083969
First essay: ‘Good and Evil’, ‘Good and Bad’ part 13

25th page in this edition: http://www.inp.uw.edu.pl/mdsie/Political_Thought/GeneologyofMorals.pdf

[Anonymous No.7084126]

>>7083964
It's a lot more than that, friend.

[Anonymous No.7084130]

>>7084126
herp a derp love is ideology

[Anonymous No.7084132]

>>7083297
>>"Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"

>try to go to bed early
>end up laying in bed for hours wide awake
>try to wake up early
>feel like shit from lack of sleep
>can't concentrate on reading because of it

[Anonymous No.7084138]

>>7084132
Niga then go see a doctor for insomnia

[Anonymous No.7084147]

>>7084132
It takes a while to adjust and it helps if you sufficiently tire yourself out during the day. As Freddy said:

"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."

>>7084138
Premature tbh. Most people struggle when trying to adjust their sleep schedule.

[Anonymous No.7084154]

>>7083964
what a bad, dumb post. you're a sad little fool staring at pictures on the cave wall. see you never, plebe

[Anonymous No.7084158]

>>7083933
nietzsche on selfishness would be more relevant to that poem. this bit is about the relationship between power and morality. safe to say whoever posted the poem doesn't have much power, let alone enough to make him a bird of prey among lambs

there's also a similar delusion where op said "why does lion care what the sheeps have to say." there's no reason except self-flattery to imagine you are the lion. it also doesn't make sense, the saying would have more power if it was a sheep among other sheep.

[Anonymous No.7084173]

>>7084132
>>7084138
Do what i did and take like 25 grams of melatonin
then after like 4-5 nights you'll be fully adjusted

You can find melatonin pretty much any supermarket

[Anonymous No.7084219]

>>7084126
>Taking the ramblings of a wife-murdering psychotic Frenchman seriously.

[Anonymous No.7084235]

>>7084219
add hominum tbh

[Anonymous No.7084279]

>>7084235
> Writes about oppression, ideology, and ideas of liberation from those systems
> Critiques power structures of civilized society like criminal justice and psychiatric care as systems of repression
> Writings are used as the foundation of modern Marxist feminism
> A feminist cornerstone who murdered his wife for no reason
> A psychotic criminal who, shockingly, doesn't care for systems of correction
> Pointing out the hypocrisy is ad hominem

[Anonymous No.7084301]

>>7083739

The gist of that poem was done better in that episode of Scrubs where JD has his evaluation done by that curly haired doc.

[Anonymous No.7084315]

>>7084116
that's thoroughly possible

[Anonymous No.7084332]

24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

[Anonymous No.7084400]

>>7084132

lol what, when I woke up at 6 am accidentally instead of 10 am, I felt like I was ready to take over the world! But i had to go back to sleep

[Anonymous No.7085403]

>>7084279
As long as the hypocrisy is not present in his works but only found in the discrepancy between his works and his life, then his works can not be dismissed for that reason.

After all, you don't dismiss a study on lung cancer because the researcher smokes either.

[Anonymous No.7086358]

>“There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one's efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer,

[Anonymous No.7086368]

>>7083297
Shitty advise imo. The point isn't to hold it's to let go and perceive and experience. Be free and not insecure.

[Anonymous No.7086371]

>>7084332
>24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
I literally just popped into this board to ask if what kind of philosophies were along the lines of "All passions are at conflict with each other. A body cannot hold more than one without being at war with itself."