Occupation: Metaphysician Birth: December 18, 1899 Death: October 12, 1990
When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based ….
The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, th….
As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change..
Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will..
Why does man need a meaning to life?.
To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house..
We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivabl….
In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation….
Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?.
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot ….
The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light o….
If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind..
The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end..
Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye..
Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward t….
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet..
The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that ce….
A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness..
Jesus must have been a psychopath.