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Peter Wessel Zapffe has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and…
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Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual…
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We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the…
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The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in…
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The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,…
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Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be –…
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Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
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A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
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When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving'…
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The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.
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Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.
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If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.
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Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither…
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You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on…
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If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.
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You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
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Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
— Max Beerbohm
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If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a…
— Nathaniel Branden
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Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in…
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For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own…
— Ayn Rand
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