What are some good books that will help me see the beauty in existence? I am too pessimistic and cynical. Like fiction similar to Kant or Spinoza
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Nietzsche
He's who got me into this mess
You misread him then
Goethe, Novalis, Holderlin, Dante, Whitman, Shakespeare
>Novalis
Magical idealism is based. I would also add onto that Evola for the way he presents esoteric mysticism, Aristotle for his theology, and pic related for the more scientific or mathematical approach to melioristic teleology. Ignore optimistic materialists in the nu-atheist crowd like Pinker (except very specifically for his ideas on evolutionary psychology and linguistics, which are really what he should stick to).
>Evola
Nietzsche is not pessimism. Nietzsche is a way out of nihilism and the pessimistic life.
Unironically this.
Then you read him wrong. Try again.
Emerson
you can read in books how people find happiness but in all truth happiness, at least in my experience, generally comes from relationships with people or accomplishing goals.
So talk to your friends, meet new people, and do something to completion
A Visit From the Goon Squad. It's about struggle and friendship and it always felt like one of the most emotionally honest and heartfelt books that I've ever read. (There are other "classic" classics that are arguably better - which is obviously unfair as their are infinite books - but if you want to read a book that's set in the modern era and feels like it's about real people this is super good.)
my diary
Reverend Insanity
>become a Christian
>read Holy Bible
>start lifting
>GO OUTSIDE
Who are you quoting?
Orthodox gigachad
Becoming Christian doesn’t help one to see the beauty of life but rather sit idly by in anticipation for the next life. Accept the rot and decay till death do you part for kingdom come
*you
>What are some good books that will help me see the beauty in existence? I am too pessimistic and cynical. Like fiction similar to Kant or Spinoza
that is a good question, and I cant recall any. Getting a cosmological perspective helps to detach from one's body and its annoying habits and see a little of the vastness and beauty, I remember feeling that a bit while reading 'The First Three Minutes' by Steven Weinberg
The crime and Punishment chapters including Sonya.
tfw no impoverished 18-year-old Christcuck gf