How do I sound smarter For example: >We don't know what

Trying to sound smart just makes you sound stupid. If a simple statement doesn't in itself sound smart, that's because it isn't a smart statement.

"The mind of man, by nature a monist, cannot accept two nothings; he knows there has been one nothing, his biological inexistence in the infinite past, for his memory is utterly blank, and that nothingness, being, as it were, past, is not too hard to endure. But a second nothingness — which perhaps might not be so hard to bear either — is logically unacceptable. When speaking of space we can imagine a live speck in the limitless oneness of space; but there is no analogy in such a concept with our brief life in time, because however brief (a thirty-year span is really obscenely brief!), our awareness of being is not a dot in eternity, but a slit, a fissure, a chasm running along the entire breadth of metaphysical time, bisecting it and shining — no matter how narrowly — between the back panel and fore panel. Therefore, Mr Rack, we can speak of past time, and in a vaguer, but familiar sense, of future time, but we simply cannot expect a second nothing, a second void, a second blank. Oblivion is a one-night performance; we have been to it once, there will be no repeat.

>>8966055
How do I learn to do this

>>8966499
It is called thinking

>>8966035

just bee yourself.

>>8966540
Learn how to use ctrl + c & ctrl + v, and read more Nabakov.

>>8966047
This.

The best quality in writing is truth and sincerity. Deliberately trying to sound like a pretentious twat is the antithesis of those qualities.

>>8966499
Arbitrary page or word count requirements in college that force you to pad your arguments with filler. It's a do or die skill that takes practice.

>>8966047
>Life's a bitch and then ya die

can I stop reading philosophy now?