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“Haven't people learned yet that the time of superficial intellectual games is over, that agony is infinitely more important than syllogism, that a cry of despair is more revealing than the most subtle thought, and that tears always have deeper roots than smiles?”
~Emil Cioran
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"Objection to scientific knowledge: this world doesn't deserve to be known."
~Emil Cioran
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"In pessimistic philosophies only the force is real, not the things activated by it. They are only puppets, and if they have consciousness may mistakenly believe they are self-winding persons who are making a go of it on their own."
~Thomas Ligotti, TCATHR
#philosophy #puppets #puppetry #pessimism #philosophicalpessimism
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“In a first moment, philosophizing is, for me, the fundamental way of man's installation in the world: a way that is insecure, fearful, ignorant, unsatisfied, desirous, incomplete, and suffering. I link philosophizing with despair. Philosophizing is the very cry of finitude, whatever the scope or level where it manifests itself.”
~Julio Cabrera
#juliocabrera #philosophy #philosophicalpessimism #pessimism #suffering
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This cracks me up:
ANTI NATALISTS Why do they keep getting born?The guy has a knack for sarcasm and irony.
https://triapul.cz/_/1764502681
#antinatalism #efilism #funhole #pessimism #philosophicalpessimism #philosophy #triapul #unix_surrealism
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“Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell.”
—Philipp Mainländer, The Philosophy of Redemption
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#PhilippMainländer #PhilosophicalPessimism #Pessimism #Quotes #Philosophy #life #Ethics -
"As for real life, there is no deserving or not deserving, just as there are no values, no morals, no rights, none of that rhetorical debris that makes our lives a misery far beyond that ordained by the facts of our physical existence."
—Thomas Ligotti, (from, Disillusionment Can Be Glamorous: An Interview With Thomas Ligotti)
#Pessimism #Quotes #QuotesOfTheDay #PhilosophicalPessimism #Philosophy #WeirdFiction #Ethics #Morals
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“Being something of a pessimist, I tend to think, in those rare moments when I really think, that existence is by nature evil. And nothing is good.”
—Thomas Ligotti, (from, The Language of Dread: An Interview with Thomas Ligotti)
#QuotesToLiveBy #LifeIsEvil #Quotes #Pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism
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“In a culture that prizes the can-do, self-starter attitude, to be a pessimist is simply to be a complainer – if you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem. To live in such a culture is to constantly live in the shadow of an obligatory optimism, a novel type of coercion that is pathologized early on in child education in the assessment: ‘Does not like to play with others.’”
~ Eugene Thacker, Tentacles Longer Than the Night
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"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
~Ecclesiastes 7:3 - 7:4, The New Oxford Annotated Bible (New Revised Standard Version)
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"’I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.’ This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection.”
~ E. M. Cioran
#quotes #philosophy #pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #Puppets #introspection
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“Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown.”
~ E. M. Cioran
#quotes #philosophy #pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #EMCioran
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“What is repulsive about children – all children – is not that they are not yet adults, but that they are already adults – whining, self-absorbed, demanding attention, unable to care for themselves, throwing tantrums when things don’t go their way. Far from what we tell ourselves, children are the most concise expressions of humanity. At least children are unaware of this.”
~ Eugene Thacker
#antinatalism #pessimism #humanity #adult #climatechange #philosophicalpessimism
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“For optimists, the most perplexing question is how one becomes a pessimist – if one is not born one. For the pessimist, the question is how each person, by virtue of being born, is not already a pessimist.”
~Eugene Thacker
#quotes #philosophy #philosophicalpessimism #antinatalism #quotestoliveby #optimism
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“Being born is strictly an action that happens to us, and concerning this primary fact we are neither ‘free’ nor ‘responsible’.”
—Julio Cabrera
#Philosophy #PhilosophicalPessimism #AntiNatalism #JulioCabrera
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“There is nothing to be got in the world anywhere; privation and pain pervade it, and boredom lies in wait at every corner for those who have escaped them. Moreover, wickedness usually reigns, and folly does all the talking. Fate is cruel, and human beings are pathetic.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
#Philosophy #Quotes #PhilosophicalPessimism #Pessimism #Nihilism #Antinatalism #ArthurSchopenhauer
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“The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror.”
—Thomas Ligotti, Noctuary
#pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #quotes #philosophy #PhilosophyQuotes #horror #HorrorQuotes
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“Man is a self-conscious nothing.”
―Julius Bahnsen
#Quotes #Philosophy #Pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #Pessimist #PessimismQuotes #JuliusBahnsen
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"There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
#Quotes #Pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #Philosophy #Pessimist #PessimismQuotes #Atheism #Atheist
