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 Anonymous  03/16/17(Thu)21:45:06 No.9250119▶>>9250178 >>9250198 >>9250202 >>9252812
ITT: Books that profoundly changed the way you think or the way you lived your life.

Pic related. Make me fucking frightened that I was missing out on life and was being a pussy. That fear pushed me to actually do things in my life.

Others include:

>Existentialism is a Humanism (I know Sartre himself was a fraud faggot, but the ideas in this little book really pushed me)
>Letters from a Stoic
>Crime and Punishment
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 Anonymous  03/16/17(Thu)22:01:33 No.9250178▶>>9250198 >>9250765
>>9250119 (OP)
ECCE HOMO
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 Anonymous  03/16/17(Thu)22:03:52 No.9250186▶
>reading fiction for life lessons

lmao
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 Anonymous  03/16/17(Thu)22:07:10 No.9250198▶
>>9250178
more like, you are an edgy homo lmao

>>9250119 (OP)
I'll regretably say The Stranger. Gave me affirmation of the feelings I was having at the time I read it and lead to a total reevaluation of my life.
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 Anonymous  03/16/17(Thu)22:09:00 No.9250202▶
>>9250119 (OP)
>The Bible
>Tao Te Ching
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 Anonymous  03/16/17(Thu)22:10:49 No.9250207▶>>9250711 >>9251982 >>9252030 >>9257130 >>9257170
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>tfw cant find audiobook of the Gay Science
>too poor to buy
>too dumb/lazy to read

plz help
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)02:33:08 No.9250711▶>>9252112
>>9250207
just buy a cheap physical copy. It's written non-chronologically in a style of maxims, so you can skip around and read what tickles your fancy
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)02:38:05 No.9250716▶>>9250731
Letters To A Young Poet
Either/Or
On The Heights of Despair
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)02:46:27 No.9250731▶>>9250768
>>9250716
>On the Heights of Despair

Care to describe it? Looks interesting.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)03:00:29 No.9250765▶
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>>9250178
>ecchi homo
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)03:01:29 No.9250768▶
>>9250731
not him, but it's typical Romanian Maudlinism from Cioran.
Taking the maudlin seriously is the mindset that leads to Rick and morty DESU
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)09:31:54 No.9251982▶>>9252112
>>9250207
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=644BCE3C27F77FB09AA0845216D3C587

fucking moron
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)09:45:12 No.9252030▶>>9252112
>>9250207
i got an ebook on iBooks for like 5$ with the whole nietzsche opera.
i like reading from the iphone because i can't be distracted by my iphone if i'm already using it to read.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)09:49:24 No.9252050▶
Spinoza's Ethics, for me. It introduced me to a more coherent understanding of "reality" in its inherent and coherent unity - weirdly enough, I see and feel echoes of his thought in every Western text published afterwords, even though I know it's methodological heresy
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)09:56:42 No.9252065▶>>9252107
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason made me autistic and also introduced me to the Kingdom of Ends and the higher beings that populate it.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:04:28 No.9252089▶
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>changed the way you think
>Nietzsche
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:05:30 No.9252091▶>>9252096
Steppenwolf changed my perspective on what it meant to be an individual, and convinced me that life ain't so bad.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:07:29 No.9252096▶>>9252104 >>9252124 >>9252142
>>9252091
>Steppenwolf

What happens after the part where he meets Hermione in the bar?
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:09:41 No.9252104▶
>>9252096
It falls apart after that. He goes into a dumb diatribe of his own insecurities.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:10:58 No.9252107▶
>>9252065
>Kant's Critique of Pure Reason made me autistic
should have started with the prolegomena faggot
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:12:17 No.9252112▶>>9252289
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>>9250711
>>9251982
>>9252030
>tell people I want find audiobook of Gay Science
>tell them I can't/won't read it
>people tell me ways to find a copy to read
Maybe I am the smart one here
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:16:05 No.9252124▶
>>9252096
thats like ch 2 dude
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:21:11 No.9252142▶
>>9252096
the book happens
before that it's just an introduction
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:22:53 No.9252150▶
The Count of Monte Cristo.


Probably in the wrong way where I consider Count a great man to be.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:26:18 No.9252164▶>>9252174 >>9252201
>listing nietzsche, existentialists, eastern, religious fanfic
why do i keep coming back to this hole

please collectively consider kys
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:29:15 No.9252174▶>>9252180 >>9252201
>>9252164
No joke, the best way to evaluate someone's intelligence is to see how much they like NEETzche. Seriously, ask some retarded person you know irl about philosophy, and 100% of the time he will mention Nietzche.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:29:52 No.9252180▶>>9252184 >>9252211
>>9252174
NEETIZSHCEH BTFO HOW CAN HE EVER RECOVER LFOF;OSMFSOARRMSAIDNA SD
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:30:56 No.9252184▶
>>9252180
Display A
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:33:44 No.9252201▶
>>9252174
>>9252164
>slandering people without putting forth a replacement

plebs detected
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:34:10 No.9252211▶>>9252219 >>9252221
>>9252180
I fucking love how upset neetzche fans get whenever you insult their idol. It's like they're cultists or something, lmfao.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:35:40 No.9252219▶
>>9252211
Nietzsche's philosophy does have a distinctly religious character and I don't think the man himself would deny this.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:36:02 No.9252221▶>>9252269
>>9252211
>heh, when I insult famous intellectuals without providing arguments people dislike it and push back heheheh
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:44:16 No.9252269▶>>9252282
>>9252221
>nietzche
>intellectual
Well meme'd, my friend!
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:47:46 No.9252282▶
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>>9252269
Begone, shitposter
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:48:58 No.9252289▶>>9252311
>>9252112
>refuses to read
>frogposter
No I don't think that's it
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)10:53:29 No.9252311▶
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>>9252289
>he doesnt realize that language first developed in an auditory capacity and therefore audiobooks are superior to and more natural than written text
>he is a midwit
>mfw Im to intelligent to read
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)11:04:30 No.9252358▶>>9255229
Dostoevsky really fucked me up good with a number of books.

When I read those books, he was able to really put into words what I never could. I began to understand how shit my mental state was and that I needed to get out of it.

Also Meditations. I didn't become a hardcore stoic or anything but it taught me I had control over my feelings and thoughts, rather than they over me.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)12:28:04 No.9252812▶>>9254520
>>9250119 (OP)
>OP
>favorite book is about being gay
of course
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)18:57:08 No.9254520▶
>>9252812
Nietzsche was a flaming homosexual. Every serious academic historian who isn't in denial knows this.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)19:36:14 No.9254662▶
Emmanuel Levinas - Totality and Infinity

I disagree with huge portions of the book now but it changed the way I understood the concept of values in such a large way that it's hard for me to really remember what my thoughts were like before I read it.
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 Anonymous  03/17/17(Fri)22:52:37 No.9255229▶
>>9252358
>I had control over my feelings
You either mistyped or dont understand Stoicism.
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 Anonymous  03/18/17(Sat)10:08:58 No.9257130▶>>9257170
>>9250207
It's on youtube.
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 Anonymous  03/18/17(Sat)10:20:46 No.9257170▶
>>9257130
>>9250207
https://librivox.org/the-joyful-wisdom-by-friedrich-nietzsche/
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