Philipp Mainländer Quotes

Philipp Mainländer was a German philosopher and poet. Born Philipp Batz, he later changed his name to "Mainländer" in homage to his hometown, Offenbach am Main.

In his central work Die Philosophie der Erlösung — according to Theodor Lessing, "perhaps the most radical system of pessimism known to philosophical literature" — Mainländer proclaims that life is worthless, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality." Wikipedia  

✵ 5. October 1841 – 1. April 1876
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Famous Philipp Mainländer Quotes

“The kingdom of heaven after death, nirvana and absolute nothingness are one and the same.”

Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Metaphysik (Anhang: Kritik der Lehren Kant’s und Schopenhauer’s) ISBN 978-1494963262

“God died and His death was the life of the world.”

Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Physik, § 38 ISBN 978-1494963262

“The will must not only despise death, it must love it; for chastity is the love of death.”

Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Ethik, § 26 ISBN 978-1494963262

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