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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
"Objection to scientific knowledge: this world doesn't deserve to be known."
~Emil Cioran
"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
“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
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
“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
“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
“We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, survivors struggling to forget it. Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life... the real evil, is behind, not ahead of us.”
~ Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
#philosophy #philosophicalPessimism #quotesToLiveBy #quotes #EMCioran #AntiNatalism
“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
“From an evolutionary viewpoint, in Zapffe’s observation, consciousness was a blunder that required corrections for its effects. It was an adventitious outgrowth that made us into a race of contradictory beings—uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation.”
~Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against The Human Race (TCATHR)
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#consciousness #philosophicalPessimism #pessimism #ThomasLigotti #antinatalism
“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, On the Heights of Despair
#pessimism #philosophicalPessimism #quotesToLiveBy #quotesDaily #philosophy #quotes
"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)
"Life’s tragic character gradually disappears as you go down the scale toward the inanimate realm… When you come to a point where you want to live like a plant, fully unconscious, then you have come to the despair of humanity."
~ Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair
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#pessimism #nihilism #philosophy #quotes #quotesToLiveBy #philosophicalPessimism
“A crying baby is the purest expression of the inanity of being human.”
~ Eugene Thacker
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#pessimism #philsophy #antinatalism #philosophicalPessimism #quotesToLiveBy
“Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
#quotes #philosophy #nihilism #quotesToLiveBy #philosophicalPessimism
“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”
~ E. M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist
#quotesToLiveBy #philosophicalPessimism #EMCioran #nihilism #quotes
"’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
“Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown.”
~ E. M. Cioran
#quotes #philosophy #pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #EMCioran
“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
“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
“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
"The logical pessimism holds that an objective solution for conflicts of intuitions does not exist; the only thing to do is to try to convince the others of the intuitiveness of our ideas, but if the other is not convinced we must accept the disappointing reality that we simply cannot continue talking with the arguer with intuitions completely divergent from ours."
—Julio Cabrera
“As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people.”
—Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
#Antinatalism #Pessimism #Nihilists #ThomasLigotti #Procreation #PhilosophicalPessimism #Nihilism
“To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.”
—E. M. Cioran, The Book of Delusions
#QuotesToLiveBy #QuotesDaily #Pessimism #Philosophy #EMCioran #PhilosophicalPessimism
“On the contrary, we freely acknowledge that what remains after the complete abolition of the will is, for all who are still full of will, assuredly nothing. But also conversely, to those in whom the will has turned and denied itself, this very real world of ours, with all its suns and galaxies, is - nothing.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer
#Philosophy #ArthurSchopenhauer #Quotes #Pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism
“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
“It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience.”
—H. P. Lovecraft
#quotes #pessimism #HPLovecraft #PhilosophicalPessimism #Horror
“Our ‘love for life’ is always, in some way, unrequited love.... Life does not care about us; it does not even know about our particular circumstances. Contrary to what is said, life gives nothing for free, and everything we manage to obtain is snatched away from us.”
—Julio Cabrera
#Pessimism #Quotes #Philosophy #PhilosophicalPessimism #JulioCabrera
“The world is an inextricable tangle of contradictions of the most tragic negativity.”
—Julius Bahnsen
#Philosophy #Pessimism #Quotes #QuotesToLiveBy #PhilosophicalPessimism #PhilosophicalPessimist
“The incapacity to repose alongside both the mountains and the mold of this planet is the fountainhead of the torments we wreak on one another. ”
—Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy against the Human Race
#Philosophy #quotes #QuotesToLiveBy #Pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #QuotesForLife #MotivationalQuotes
“One's philosophy has nothing to do with anything. All the systems and speculations of philosophy? The Will, the Thing-in-itself, the Ubermensch, the concept of Nothingness, and so on, are merely characters in a series melodrama.”
—Thomas Ligotti
#quotes #Philosophy #Pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #PhilosophicalThoughts
“To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'.”
—Thomas Ligotti, Noctuary
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#pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #philosophy #quotes #PhilosophyQuotes
“We are like Mainländer’s suicidal God. Nothing needed Him either, and His uselessness was transferred to us after He burst out of existence. We have no business being in this world.”
—Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
#pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #quotes #Philosophy #PhilosophyQuotes
“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
“Man is a self-conscious nothing.”
―Julius Bahnsen
#Quotes #Philosophy #Pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #Pessimist #PessimismQuotes #JuliusBahnsen
"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
