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Any books that will prevent me from losing my mind if I were to be an Immortal ?

I heard Spengler was a pretty cool guy, what else ?

>> No.16869258

Hölderlin, of course.

>> No.16869345

copy pasta from an old thread about Spengler, to read in that order

>Der Mensch und die Technik
>Preußentum und Sozialismus
>Neubau des Deutschen Reiches
>Jahre der Entscheidung
>His essays and his speeches
>Decline of the West Volume 1 & 2
>Der Mensch und die Technik (again)
>Frühzeit der Weltgeschichte

The original OP was German so he only knew the title in german

>> No.16869346

>>16869247

>> No.16869372

Fyodor Dostoevsky:
1. Notes from Underground
2. The brothers Karamazov
3. The Idiot
4. Demons (leftists/antifa should read it)
5. Crime and Punishment


Anton Chekov:
1. Uncle Vanya
2. The Cherry Orchard
3. Three Sisters
4. The Seagull


Leo Tolstoy:
1. The death of Ivan Ilych
2. Anna Karenina
3. The Kreutzer Sonata
4. War and Peace

Herink Ibsen:
1. The enemy of the People
2. Ghosts

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>The abolition of Latin as the universal language of learned men, together with the rise of that provincialism which attaches to national literatures, has been a real misfortune for the cause of knowledge in Europe. For it was chiefly through the medium of the Latin language that a learned public existed in Europe at all -- a public to which every book as it came out directly appealed. The number of minds in the whole of Europe that are capable of thinking and judging is small, as it is; but when the audience is broken up and severed by differences of language, the good these minds can do is very much weakened. This is a great disadvantage; but a second and worse one will follow, namely, that the ancient languages will cease to be taught at all. The neglect of them is rapidly gaining ground in France and Germany.

>If it should really come to this, then farewell, humanity! Farewell, noble taste and high thinking! The age of barbarism will return, in spite of railways, telegraphs and balloons. We shall thus in the end lose one more advantage possessed by all our ancestors. For Latin is not only a key to the knowledge of Roman antiquity; it also directly opens up to us the Middle Age in every country in Europe, and modern times as well, down to about the year 1750. Erigena, for example, in the ninth century, Raimond Lully in the thirteenth, with a hundred others, speak straight to us in the very language that they naturally adopted in thinking of learned matters. They thus come quite close to us even at this distance of time: we are in direct contact with them, and really come to know them. How would it have been if every one of them spoke in the language that was peculiar to his time and country? We should not understand even the half of what they said. A real intellectual contact with them would be impossible. We should see them like shadows on the farthest horizon, or, may be, through the translator's telescope.

>It was with an eye to the advantage of writing in Latin that Bacon, as he himself expressly states, proceeded to translate his Essays into that language, under the title Sermones fideles; at which work Hobbes assisted him

Start with the Romans

>> No.16869398

books to overcome the /pol/ incel mindset:

1. Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue
2. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
3. St. Augustine's Confessions

>> No.16869413

>>16869247
All you need is Chaucer and Shakespeare's complete works.

Actually, that's all anybody needs.