ITT: Books that profoundly changed the way you think or the way

>>9250119
ECCE HOMO

>reading fiction for life lessons

lmao

>>9250178
more like, you are an edgy homo lmao

>>9250119
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.

>>9250119
>The Bible
>Tao Te Ching

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>tfw cant find audiobook of the Gay Science
>too poor to buy
>too dumb/lazy to read

plz help

>>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

Letters To A Young Poet
Either/Or
On The Heights of Despair

>>9250716
>On the Heights of Despair

Care to describe it? Looks interesting.

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>>9250178
>ecchi homo

>>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

>>9250207
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=644BCE3C27F77FB09AA0845216D3C587

fucking moron

>>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.

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

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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>changed the way you think
>Nietzsche

Steppenwolf changed my perspective on what it meant to be an individual, and convinced me that life ain't so bad.

>>9252091
>Steppenwolf

What happens after the part where he meets Hermione in the bar?

>>9252096
It falls apart after that. He goes into a dumb diatribe of his own insecurities.

>>9252065
>Kant's Critique of Pure Reason made me autistic
should have started with the prolegomena faggot

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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

>>9252096
thats like ch 2 dude

>>9252096
the book happens
before that it's just an introduction

The Count of Monte Cristo.


Probably in the wrong way where I consider Count a great man to be.

>listing nietzsche, existentialists, eastern, religious fanfic
why do i keep coming back to this hole

please collectively consider kys

>>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.

>>9252174
NEETIZSHCEH BTFO HOW CAN HE EVER RECOVER LFOF;OSMFSOARRMSAIDNA SD

>>9252180
Display A

>>9252174
>>9252164
>slandering people without putting forth a replacement

plebs detected

>>9252180
I fucking love how upset neetzche fans get whenever you insult their idol. It's like they're cultists or something, lmfao.

>>9252211
Nietzsche's philosophy does have a distinctly religious character and I don't think the man himself would deny this.

>>9252211
>heh, when I insult famous intellectuals without providing arguments people dislike it and push back heheheh

>>9252221
>nietzche
>intellectual
Well meme'd, my friend!

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>>9252269
Begone, shitposter

>>9252112
>refuses to read
>frogposter
No I don't think that's it

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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

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.

>>9250119
>OP
>favorite book is about being gay
of course

>>9252812
Nietzsche was a flaming homosexual. Every serious academic historian who isn't in denial knows this.

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.

>>9252358
>I had control over my feelings
You either mistyped or dont understand Stoicism.

>>9250207
It's on youtube.

>>9257130
>>9250207
https://librivox.org/the-joyful-wisdom-by-friedrich-nietzsche/