Quotes by Peter Wessel Zapffe

Peter Wessel Zapffe

A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.

Children

Coins

Cosmic

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

Essentials

Long

Triumph

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

Doe

Meaning Of Life

Men

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

Desert

Islands

Tragedy

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

Life And Death

Mind

Natural

In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

Brutality

Children

Choices

Jesus must have been a psychopath

Has Beens

Jesus

Psychopath

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

Earth

Knows

Silent

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.

Breathing

Earth

Men

Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.

Animal

Inspirational

Spiritual

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Animal

Answers

Beginnings And Ends

Breathing

Brutality

Burning

Children

Choices

Coins

Cosmic

Darkness

Desert

Doe

Earth

Ends

Essentials

Existence

Goal

Hair

Has Beens

Honest

Honesty

House

Inspirational

Islands

Jesus

Knows

Lawyer

Life

Life And Death

Light

Long

Mankind

Meaning Of Life

Men

Mind

Mutation

Natural

Needs

Psychopath

Religious

Silent

Spiritual

Suicidal

Tragedy

Triumph

Vanishing

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Quotes by Peter Wessel Zapffe

Peter Wessel Zapffe

A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

Jesus must have been a psychopath

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

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.

Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.

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