Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes

• El hombre es un animal trágico. No por su pequeñez, sino porque está demasiado bien dotado. El hombre tiene anhelos y exigencias espirituales que la realidad no puede satisfacer. Tenemos expectativas de un mundo justo y moral. El hombre exige sentido en un mundo sin sentido.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Animal

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• Venimos de una nada inconcebible. Permanecemos un tiempo en algo que parece igualmente inconcebible, sólo para desvanecernos de nuevo en la nada inconcebible.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Life, Vanishing, Lawyer

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• De acuerdo con mi concepción de la vida, he optado por no traer hijos al mundo. Una moneda se examina, y sólo después de una cuidadosa deliberación, se da a un mendigo, mientras que un niño se lanza a la brutalidad cósmica sin vacilar.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Children, Choices, Brutality

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• Traer hijos a este mundo es como llevar leña a una casa en llamas.

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  Children, House, Burning

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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 is thought, for instance, that certain deer in paleontological times succumbed as they acquired overly-heavy horns. The mutations must be considered blind, they work, are thrown forth, without any contact of interest with their environment. In depressive states, the mind may be seen in the image of such an antler, in all its fantastic splendour pinning its bearer to the ground.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Mind, Tragedy, Mutation

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• 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?

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Men, Meaning Of Life, Doe

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• Cuando un ser humano se quita la vida por depresión, se trata de una muerte natural por causas espirituales. La barbarie moderna de "salvar" al suicida se basa en un espeluznante malentendido de la naturaleza de la existencia.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Spiritual, Suicidal, Hair

  "The Last Messiah". Essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, 1933.

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

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Life And Death, Mind, Natural

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, 1990.

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

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Long, Triumph, Essentials

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

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Earth, Silent, Knows

  "The Last Messiah". Book by Peter Wessel Zapffe, 1933.

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• The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Honesty, Light, Goal

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

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Islands, Tragedy, Desert

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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 refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

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  Religious, Answers, Honest

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• 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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  Men, Breathing, Earth

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• Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Ends, Existence, Mankind

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, 1990.

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• Jesus must have been a psychopath

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Jesus, Psychopath, Has Beens

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

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  Children, Coins, Cosmic

  "Essays og epistler". Book by Peter Wessel Zapffe, 1967.

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• The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Light, Darkness, Beginnings And Ends

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, Tromsø Norway: Original Film AS, 1990.

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• Why does man need a meaning to life?

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Hombres, Doe, Necesidades

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, 1990.

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