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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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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent…
— Khalil Gibran
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To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.
— Burl Ives
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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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…
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it…
— Saint Augustine
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Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal…
— Simon Newcomb
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The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his…
— Henry David Thoreau
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