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“Oh, miserable ephemeral race, children of chance and suffering, why do you compel me to say to you what would be most beneficial for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly unreachable: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is – to die soon.”
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“Best of all things is never to be born,
never to know the light of sharp sun.
But being born, then best
to pass quickly as one can through the gates of Hell,
and there lie under the massive shield of earth.”
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never to know the light of sharp sun.
But being born, then best
to pass quickly as one can through the gates of Hell,
and there lie under the massive shield of earth.”
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“A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place”
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“The difficulty of seeing how values could be objective is a fairly strong reason for thinking that they are not so”
― Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
― Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
“But at the bottom, the immanent philosopher sees in the entire universe only the deepest longing for absolute annihilation, and it is as if he clearly hears the call that permeates all spheres of heaven: Redemption! Redemption! Death to our life! and the comforting answer: you will all find annihilation and be redeemed!”
― Die Philosophie der Erlösung
― Die Philosophie der Erlösung
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