"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing……" — Peter Wessel Zapffe
"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail."
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Peter Wessel Zapffe
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16 Quotes by Peter Wessel Zapffe
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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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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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