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yes

"non fiction" is a meme

literature teaches the same things as nonfiction. it's just for people who can read between the lines.

you could be a /pol/bot and memorize the wiki intro to every political ideology there is and have a dictionary understanding of them all, but what's the use if you cannot think?

no

"fiction" is a meme

>>8348683

Yes but only for one person.

>>8348689
What about have more knowledge than most intellectuals?

Knowledge is relative

You think a lawyer knows as much about medicine as a doctor?

This is why humility is so important, work with others and use eqch others knowledge to mutual benefit. Its how civilization is born.

Ebin xD

>>8348598
What a retarded thread.

>>8348598
>no persian
>Argentina higher than Japan

What a retard

>>8348537
Anons will laugh if you say polymath. So let's say generalist instead. Now that we got that covered:

I suggest you start just reading around the internet on different subjects and when you find something that interests you search for papers on google scholar and if necessary scihub. Most likely you'll start finding books, but you can also search for books on the subjects that interest you.

Next for a more controversial proposal: go to the science related subreddits and ask questions there and book and paper recommendations.

Being a generalist is all about being curious and searching and finding new information. When you start, you cannot go back.

>>8348537
Another thing that is useful is looking at the goodreads "readers also enjoyed" and the recommendations it gives based on your read and to read shelf have been useful for me to find new books.

>>8348486
Adderall

>>8348486
>browsing /lit/
But you can't read
You just look at the pictures?

>>8348492
I meant literature. I can't get the juices flowing in my mind anymore and my head doesn't piece lines together correctly and I can't concentrate. It's actually a lot of trouble to read posts here and write this but I have nothing better to do

>>8348373
I don't get why he committed suicide

>>8348390
He thought that God existed primarily as a way to avoid suicide and that by killing himself he placed himself above God and therefore became God. Christian symbolism clearly had an effect on him as he made himself into a Christlike figure who died for the sins of others

I prefer Stavr

>>8348349
Oh I know that: start with the greeks.

>>8348349
He didn't make that quote, but Lacan's general psychoanalytic theory echoes that statement.

>>8348380
Great memeing, friend, but that meme doesn't even make sense as a reply in relation to this thread.

>>8348383
Well is there a certain quote by Lacan who reflects it? It is a certain singular quote I'm looking for.

Say that to these babies:

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
— To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
(…)
MERCUTIO: O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Over men's noses as they lie asleep;
Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs,
The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;
Her traces, of the smallest spider web;
Her collars, of the moonshine's wat'ry beams;
Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film;
Her wagoner, a small grey-coated gnat,
Not half so big as a round little worm
Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid;
Her chariot is an empty hazelnut,
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on curtsies straight;
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees;
O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail
Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep,
Then dreams he of another benefice.
Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two
And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
That plats the manes of horses in the night
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled much misfortune bodes.
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage.
This is she!
(…)
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

>>8348293
dam. really made me think

in fact, wtf i hate poetry now

A childish poem would be about farts. An adult poem would be about work. What you should've been smart enough to realize is that some poetry is childish and some poetry isn't. Also I think it's fucking stupid you think being childish is something wrong. Children are fucking geniuses when it comes to figuring thing out, I wish I still figured stuff out that fast. I know about of useless shit and I can use my intelligence to make interesting connections, but if a kid new all this shit and still looked at it with a childlike wonder; he could say a lot of interesting stuff too.

>>8348267

Dump all of that inconsequential nonsense and read Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

>>8348308
this

also read Philebus by Plato

>>8348267
My diary is obligatory.

>>8348227
>"It's a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fragile ego, must be in want of the redpill'

From 'The Diary of a Redpiller - my memeoirs''

>you will never lick those feet

I went to daaaance

I don't really see the point of philosophy.

Seems like it exists because science can't measure everything yet.

read fantasy lmao

fuck the canon

But still read the Bible and the greeks. There's literally nothing to lose and everything to gain.

>>8348210
you're immature and anti-intellectual I'm afraid
some people are just unfit for high art by birth

Works - Seneca
On the Nature of Things - Lucretius
Sayings of the Desert Fathers

>>8348166
what about novels or poetry

Not in any major way. A book can't rid you of depression, maybe alleviate it slightly at best.

>Is Franzen right
No.

>>8348097
Ok seriously how hard would it be to murder him and get away with it.

They are two separate mediums that produce completely different outcomes from one another. They may have parralels, but to put them in the same vein makes little sense.

>>8348056
Nobody does

>>8348056
this describes everyone's experiance

>>8348056
You piece of shit. You're detracting conversation from my superior Finnegans Wake thread. Delet

why do you force yourself to consume then

>>8348033

I have no friends irl and pol is by far the most dynamic board despite being a bit dumb

>>8348029
saged