ITT: Books that profoundly changed the way you think or the way you lived your life.
Pic related. Make me fucking frightened that I was missing out on life and was being a pussy. That fear pushed me to actually do things in my life.
Others include:
>Existentialism is a Humanism (I know Sartre himself was a fraud faggot, but the ideas in this little book really pushed me) >Letters from a Stoic >Crime and Punishment
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.
Gabriel Wood
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
Jonathan Martinez
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.
Julian Hughes
>changed the way you think >Nietzsche
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Steppenwolf changed my perspective on what it meant to be an individual, and convinced me that life ain't so bad.
Luis Baker
>Steppenwolf
What happens after the part where he meets Hermione in the bar?
Jaxson Jones
It falls apart after that. He goes into a dumb diatribe of his own insecurities.
Grayson Perry
>Kant's Critique of Pure Reason made me autistic should have started with the prolegomena faggot
Asher Torres
>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
Jayden Williams
thats like ch 2 dude
Ethan Roberts
the book happens before that it's just an introduction
Leo Young
The Count of Monte Cristo.
Probably in the wrong way where I consider Count a great man to be.
Adam Ortiz
>listing nietzsche, existentialists, eastern, religious fanfic why do i keep coming back to this hole
please collectively consider kys
Justin Long
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.
Zachary Baker
NEETIZSHCEH BTFO HOW CAN HE EVER RECOVER LFOF;OSMFSOARRMSAIDNA SD
Nicholas Butler
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Adrian Powell
>slandering people without putting forth a replacement
plebs detected
Jace Russell
I fucking love how upset neetzche fans get whenever you insult their idol. It's like they're cultists or something, lmfao.
Thomas Morris
Nietzsche's philosophy does have a distinctly religious character and I don't think the man himself would deny this.
William Garcia
>heh, when I insult famous intellectuals without providing arguments people dislike it and push back heheheh
Jayden Robinson
>nietzche >intellectual Well meme'd, my friend!
Henry Russell
Begone, shitposter
Nicholas Kelly
>refuses to read >frogposter No I don't think that's it
Jackson Bennett
>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
Robert Peterson
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.
Hunter Robinson
>OP >favorite book is about being gay of course
Brody Johnson
Nietzsche was a flaming homosexual. Every serious academic historian who isn't in denial knows this.
Carson Bennett
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.
Connor Campbell
>I had control over my feelings You either mistyped or dont understand Stoicism.