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Peter Wessel Zapffe
“Man is the ultimate tragic being, because he has learned enough about the Earth to realise the Earth would be better off without the presence of humankind.”
Peter Wessel Zapffe

R.D. Laing
“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.”
Ronald D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

Max Stirner
“Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?”
Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority

Peter Wessel Zapffe
“The modern barbarity of ‘saving’ the suicidal is based on a hairraising misapprehension of the nature of existence.”
Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays

Peter Wessel Zapffe
“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, Essays

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