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, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.
Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will. - Peter Wessel Zapffe
Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.
- Peter Wessel Zapffe
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 … - Peter Wessel Zapffe
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 …
As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change. - Peter Wessel Zapffe
As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.
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? - Peter Wessel Zapffe
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?
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… - Peter Wessel Zapffe
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…
If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind. - Peter Wessel Zapffe
If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.
Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye. - Peter Wessel Zapffe
Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
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… - Peter Wessel Zapffe
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…
The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end. - Peter Wessel Zapffe
The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.
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