Are there any books that encourage living and enjoying life rather than being lost in thoughts and constantly analyzing the world?
Are there any books that encourage living and enjoying life rather than being lost in thoughts and constantly analyzing...
on the contrary, what are some book I can read to inspire a sort of constant thought and analyzation of the world?
The Immoralist by Andre Gide is exactly what you're looking for
On The Road
Infinite Jest
Ego and Its Own
No, really.
Tao The Ching
Epistulae morales
Isn't that about buttsecks?
Candide by Voltaire
Are there any books that don't tell me what I want to hear?
Is that image from Tatami Galaxy or am I misattributing it
yup, from the ed
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Gonna put this myself, living that life will kill you from liver failure sadly
Anything by Camus
Why would you want to do this? I've been stuck in constant analysis and studying for most of my life, and it's a terrible way to live. It's only worth it to the extent of understanding basic pragmatics to live a virtuous life and perhaps some poetry. Everything else compartmentalizes and diminishes the essential nature of reality to bland mechanical ideas. There is beauty in ignorance.
You do realise that what you're asking is kind of hypocritical right?
In what way is it hypocritical?
You're basically asking for a book about food because you're feeling hungry.
It's a way to progressively accept that lifestyle. It's not hypocritical for people who want to start with Taoism to read taoist texts, even if the first line of the Tao Te Ching goes against it.
The Alchemist is the best in this genre, it's exactly what you're looking for
Why do you make the distinction between living life and thinking? One must be alive and living to lose oneself in thought.
This is shit
Get the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro instead (he's an heteronym of Fernando Pessoa so it's not too big of a read)
You know what I mean.
Hamlet
>implying OP can read Portugese
>translations
Steppenwolf by hesse
best ed desu
The ouevre of Yukio Mishima from Japan.
Dostoevsky
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Thurber
My nigga
Siddharta by Hesse
Lucretius - On the Nature of Things
Trust me OP
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>reading poetry in translation
How can a person be this pleb
ZARATHRUSTER
Zorba the Greek and Dorian gray - both hedonistic novels
>ITT No Nietzsche
This proves you fucks haven't actually read Nietzsche whatsoever. Not even the Thus Meme'd Zarathustra
Get your shit together faggot. In zarathustra we trust.
Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei :^)
Nietzsche