"The immediate facts are what we must relate……" — Peter Wessel Zapffe
"The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end."
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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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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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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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