"As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the……" — Peter Wessel Zapffe
"As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change."
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Peter Wessel Zapffe
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16 Quotes by Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe has 16 quotes on this site.
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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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A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic…
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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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Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
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We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond…
— Noam Chomsky
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.
— Mark Messier
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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a…
— Karl Popper
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As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.
— Anita Bryant
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It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The…
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Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And…
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On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature…
— Unknown Author
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has…
— Robert Burton
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Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human.…
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