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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…
• Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual…
• We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the…
• The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in…
• The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,…
• Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be –…
• Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
• A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
• When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving'…
• The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.
• Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.
• If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

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