"A coin is turned around before it is……" — Peter Wessel Zapffe
"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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Peter Wessel Zapffe
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16 Quotes by Peter Wessel Zapffe
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In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is…
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Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings…
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We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again…
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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…
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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…
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Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would…
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Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
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When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity…
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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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As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.
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More Beggar Quotes
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Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him…
— David Jeremiah
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
— Karl Kraus
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Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have…
— John G. Lake
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And…
— William Shakespeare
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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge,…
— Mason Cooley
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
— Mary McCarthy
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He…
— Thomas Adams
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which…
— Andre Gide
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the…
— Anzia Yezierska
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Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you…
— Swami Vivekananda
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