Peter Wessel Zapffe

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

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

Another flaw of the system is the fact that various danger fronts often require very different firmaments. As a logical superstructure is built upon each, there follow clashes of incommensurable modes of feeling and thought. Then despair can enter through the rifts. In such cases, a person may be obsessed with destructive joy, dislodging the whole artificial apparatus of his life and starting with rapturous horror to make a clean sweep of it. The horror stems from the loss of all sheltering values, the rapture from his by now ruthless identification and harmony with our nature__ deepest secret, the biological unsoundness, the enduring disposition for doom.

_ The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth__ is a pond and a backwater._ The sign of doom is written on your brows _ how long will ye kick against the pin-pricks?_ But there is one conquest and one crown, one redemption and one solution._ Know yourselves _ be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.