Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A m… - Peter Wessel Zapffe

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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

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Peter Wessel Zapffe (18 December 1899 – 12 October 1990) was a Norwegian metaphysician, author, lawyer and mountaineer, noted for his philosophically pessimistic and fatalistic view of human existence.

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

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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

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