>>25367080
Mencius - Mencius
Zengzi - The Great Learning
Zisi - The Doctrine of the Mean
Zhang Zai - The Western Inscription

Camut

>>25367080
Emile
>Wretched soul, it is your gloomy philosophy which makes you like the beasts; or rather in vain do you seek to degrade yourself; your genius belies your principles, your kindly heart belies your doctrines, and even the abuse of your powers proves their excellence in your own despite.

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>>25367080
deleuze and guattari take you to the very pits of schizophrenic egodeath and formless horror and then remind you that this was how it all was all along, these are the materials with which we work and from which everything good has been moulded. the only question is how to produce, how to select, how to get started.

there is, admittedly, a blackpill hidden in anti-oedipus and a thousand plateaus: it's realising that society and culture are so very drastically behind d+g, so very far below their level, that our planetary economy is such that it constantly makes us aware in theory of a limitless power which we, in our alienated private lives, can only sporadically and ephemerally harness. at least right now.

reading d+g is like reading a reality-engineering textbook from the distant future, or from long-submerged atlantis.

a poem to muse upon, translated by samuel beckett:
>hope is a knave befools us evermore,
>which till i lost no happiness was mine.
>i strike from hell to grave on heaven's door,
>'all hope abandon ye who enter in.'

>>25367235
Ill bite, where to start with them.

>>25367080
New Testament

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>>25367298
if you're into psychology, start at page 1 of anti-oedipus. if you're into history and politics, start at the 'treatise on nomadology', ch12 of a thousand plateaus. if you're into culture and aesthetics, start at atp ch11, 'of the refrain'. but it takes a while for things to click, wherever you start.

>>25367304
>childless virgin hero is tortured to death by his own people for trying to reform their ill faith
how can that be a whitepill?

>>25367320
that's not the end of the story, though, is it?

"Confessions" by St. Augustine
"Seven Storey Mountain" by Thomas Merton
"Hannah's Child" by Stanley Hauerwas
"The Book of Strangers" by Ian Dallas
"Hadji Murad" by Tolstoy
"Walden" by Thoreau
"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman
"The Bhagavad Gita" or any Sacred Text comprehensible to your mind in its present state

These are mostly all stories of people who were seeking some higher, more purposeful form of existence and indeed found it.

>>25367320
How else could you relate to the hero?

>>25367334
Brothers Karamazov is an extremely uplifting novel as well, I forgot that one. Nobody who ever slogged through it ended up regretting it, promise.

Nietzsche

>>25367395
>"What is best of all is utterly unreachable to you: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. The second best for you, however, is to die soon."

bro, what the fuck is your problem?

>>25367334
>"Walden" by Thoreau
I want to live off the grid so badly. Wish I could quit my job right now and go live in the forest.

>>25367397
isn't this just everyday muh deep feelz religious talk?
>I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

>>25367410
If you're in the USA you can get a similar kind of nourishment by doing long hikes. I don't think it would cost more than 500 dollars in equipment and 200 dollars a week for food and supplies, your bang-for-buck will vary depending on your needs and your skills. The Appalachian trail is kind of a huge commitment that you would have to spend a lot of time saving money for but it's certainly doable on wages even today (if you live with family and can put your rent money in the bank for a few months).

The Long Trail in Vermont is a much shorter version of the AT at 280 miles. Spending a full month outside can absolutely change the entire trajectory of your life. Walking 20-25 miles a day for a month will whip your body into a state of vigor and health, and you can begin at a pace closer to 10 miles a day even if you are in terrible shape and overweight. If you have a booze/drug habit, don't take those with you, use the trail to ween yourself off of these things. Keep your phone off all day and only check it at night or during emergencies, stay the fuck off the internet.

Out West you can find National Forest campsites where you can pitch a tent for weeks on end and just do whatever you want, sit in your car and read all day, take nature walks, make pleasant conversation with visitors, or whatever. The whole van life thing is a meme, once your rig breaks down you're fucked and it's game over. But America still has a lot of options for those who need to reground themselves in the woods.

Also if you love Thoreau Walden Pond is worth a visit, Concord Mass is a delightful, charming town, you can go sit on a big rock by the Connecticut River in Ralph Waldo's old backyard at the Old Manse, and muse about the two of them sitting on the same rock as they surely did.

>>25367397
>filtered

>>25367080
Voltaire

>>25367338
It's not a slog, it's a joy to read.

>>25367397
It's bedtime.

>>25367235
Marx ended philosophy

>>25367493
Marx did to historical analysis what engineers did to nature. He shoehorned his view onto a system instead of searching for natural emergent properties.

>>25367493
you want to be smart so badly

Tolkien and his On Fairy Stories

>>25367397
that was nietxche quoting silenus which he then spend the whole book refuting. learn to read instead of skimming out of context quotes of quotes.

>>25367397
>for you

>>25368728
I do

>>25367080
Probably get shit on for this, but The Stars My Destination by Bester. It firmly believes in the potential of the common person to rise up and better himself.

>>25367334
Stanley Hauerwas, been meaning to read him.

>>25370637
You won't

>>25370645
"Hannah's Child" is extremely readable and an excellent autobiography. He's got a fat collection of essays called "The Hauerwas Reader" organized by topic. Certainly the man has a good heart and a sharp mind, he is definitely worth reading.

Siddhartha?

>>25367080
The Courage to be Disliked

>>25367334
You forgot Blood Meridian

>>25367080
Runaway Horses

>>25367493
nationalism ended marx

>>25373092
Is this a standalone or is it better to read the first book of the tetraology, even if you just get 10% more *clicks* in the second.

>>25373078
Even if Blood Meridian wasn't dog shit it would still be the opposite of what this thread is about.

>>25373215
It would genuinely be a better story if it was standalone but mishima had a hate boner for Buddhism. Honda and his diatribes are easily the worst part. Also, Honda's chapters recap the first book. If anything i recommend reading the first two and ignoring the last two. The third one was fucking awful.

>>25367421
> doing long hikes. I don't think it would cost more than 500 dollars in equipment
Person who never goes >>>/out/ and their fucking gearfag list for the arduous task of… walking. On a premade trail. With signs and designated rest areas.

>>25373427
Fuck off I walked every step of the Long Trail, and plenty of other long hikes, I have a thousand miles /out/ under my belt, easily. That was an extremely informed post with excellent advice that might just really help certain lost young men, people passing information like this along to me when I was young helped me find healthy ways to deal with my anger and anxiety. People like you feel the need to put everyone down and assert their self image at every turn, it's just ridiculous.

You need a good trail ruck and a tent, which is going to be 300-500 on the cheap side. Some people are ultra minimalists but that approach is not for everyone and people who incline to it will simply opt to shed gear later.

Why oh why oh why do you people act like this? instead of seeking like minded friends or discussing interests you just feel the need to put everyone down, as if anyone who shares your hobbies is somehow a threat to you and not a natural friend. Grow up.

Henry Miller & Kerouac

>>25368728
You spam this canned response and variations on it so frequently that I'm starting to think you're mostly talking to yourself

John Paolucci Writings
Triumphant George Writings
The Vedas, Adi Shankaracharya
Quran, Sufi Texts
The Taoists Texts

>>25374201
You're a retard. The ESL fag you've been raging about isn't just one person because people with taste know McCarthy is shit.
t. American who can't read Spanish.

>>25367080
Schopenhauer.

>>25374669
In your cheeky reply you were kinda correct, his aphorisms on the wisdom of life and on reading and books are the only self help works worth a damn.

>>25374685
Th-the only??

>>25374692
Yes. You can add Antifragile for safeguarding yourself against market shocks>>25374692

>>25367318

>"abloo bloo i tried to make this so clear a child could read it, despite my bigbrain sophisticated super-philosophy"
>immediately writes in an unnecessarily convoluted and obscure way

what disingenuous cocksuckers. Anyone who buys into shit like this is a fool

>>25373078
Kek

>>25373529
I think it's the ultimate pesticide against the resident insecure pseuds of this board. I will spam it too, from now on

>>25374728
We dont speak taco-burrito over here

>>25367080
Sophocles

>>25373427
I'm in the woods every single day but I haven't visited /out/ in years because it's full of incredibly boring losers like you

>>25367493
Marxist only read Marxism
Meanwhile Heidegger dominates modern continental philosophy

>>25374685
It wasn't cheeky. I really meant it.

The Holy Bible

>>25374866
My life is always Job 1 - Job 41, and never Job 42.

>>25367493
Keep telling yourself that.