Frases de Peter Wessel Zapffe

Peter Wessel Zapffe foi um norueguês metafísico, autor, advogado e montanhista. Ele é muitas vezes conhecido por sua visão filosófica pessimista e fatalista da existência humana—o seu sistema de filosofia, em linha com o trabalho do filósofo Arthur Schopenhauer, por quem ele foi inspirado, bem como a sua firme advocacia do antinatalismo. Os seus pensamentos sobre o erro da vida humana são apresentados no ensaio O Último Messias . Este ensaio é uma versão mais curta do seu trabalho mais conhecido, o tratado filosófico Sobre o Trágico . Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Dezembro 1899 – 12. Outubro 1990
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Peter Wessel Zapffe: Frases em inglês

“To bear children into this world is like carrying wood into a burning house.”

As quoted in Reflekser i trylleglass: stemmer fra vårt århundre [Magical Reflections : Voices of Our Century] (1998) edited by Haagen Ringnes

“We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.”

Fonte: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)

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

Fonte: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)

“Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.”

Fonte: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)

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

Fonte: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)

“Nobody has ever managed to explain what it is they are longing after in religion, but it is quite clear what they are trying to escape from – this earthly vale of tears, one’s untenable existential situation.”

Peter Wessel Zapffe livro The Last Messiah

The Last Messiah (1933)
Fonte: trans. Peter Reed & David Rothenberg https://ia803202.us.archive.org/15/items/20200821_20200821_1659/OAP_Zapffe_Last_Messiah.pdf, page 8

“Death is a terrible provocation. It appears almost everywhere, presenting a stern but effective scale for both values and ethical standards.”

Fonte: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)

“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?”

Fonte: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)

“Death is the most certain and the most uncertain event there is.”

Fonte: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)