The Most UNDERRATED Philosophy Book Ever?? 📚📚

Описание: After reading more than 1,300 books since 2014, I've prepared a list of 100 books that will DRAMATICALLY improve your life: https://thereadinglife.beehiiv.com/c/...

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“Let us summarize our conclusions briefly: The Outsider wants to cease to be an Outsider.

He wants to be 'balanced.' He would like to achieve a vividness of sense-perception (Lawrence, Van Gogh, Hemingway).

He would also like to understand the human soul and its workings (Barbusse and Mitya Karamazov).

He would like to escape triviality forever, and be 'possessed' by a Will to Power, to more life.

Above all, he would like to know how to express himself, because that is the means by which he can get to know himself and his unknown possibilities.

Every Outsider tragedy we have studied so far has been a tragedy of self-expression."

-Colin Wilson, "The Outsider"

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If ordinary life usually seems a bit...well, ORDINARY...it may be because the way most human beings live their lives can be compared to an extraordinarily powerful jet airplane flying on only one engine.

That's Colin Wilson's basic contention in The Outsider, where he outlines his fundamentally optimistic philosophy of New Existentialism.

The Outsider is a survey of some of the most profound responses to urgent questions about existence, meaning in life, and how to confront death.

Wilson explores the lives of key literary and cultural figures such as Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T.E. Lawrence, Vincent van Gogh, H.G. Wells, George Gurdjieff, and a multitude of others, discussing their effects on society, and society's effects on them.

I just stumbled upon this book one time – I had never heard of it before – and thought it looked interesting, given that he references philosophers and writers I enjoyed reading, such as Kierkegaard, Camus, Dostoyevsky, etc.

I had NO IDEA that it would completely change my life forever after and would RADICALLY alter how I lived out each day of my one and only life.

If you're into philosophy, and you want to read a fantastic, fundamentally optimistic book about life, the universe, and how we can maximize and enjoy our time here, I'd highly, HIGHLY recommend The Outsider, by Colin Wilson!

Here are my complete notes from The Outsider (free): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r...

Here's the Amazon link to buy the book (umm, NOT free): https://amzn.to/4j8bOgk

After reading more than 1,300 books since 2014, I've prepared a list of 100 books that will DRAMATICALLY improve your life: https://thereadinglife.beehiiv.com/c/...

Subscribe for book reviews and recommendations:    / @mattkaramazov