"Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth……" — Peter Wessel Zapffe

"Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye."

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

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16 Quotes by Peter Wessel Zapffe

Peter Wessel Zapffe has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is…
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings…
We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again…
The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek…
The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it…
Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would…
A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic…
When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity…
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.
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 Earth Quotes

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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