Philipp Mainländer: Quotes about death

Philipp Mainländer was German poet and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on death.
Philipp Mainländer: 10   quotes 8   likes

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

Philipp Mainländer

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

Death

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

Philipp Mainländer

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

World , God , Life , Death

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

Philipp Mainländer

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

Love , Death

“And who is and should be a pessimist? He who is mature for death. He can love life so scarcely as he [the optimist] can depart from it. If he does not realize that he will survive in his children, his procreation loses its horrible character; but if he realizes it, he will recoil in horror from it, just like Humboldt noticing that it is paying dearly for a few minutes of pleasure with the torments that another being must endure perhaps for eighty years, and consider the procreation of children as a crime and justly so.”

Philipp Mainländer

Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Metaphysik, § 21 ISBN 978-1494963262

Children , Pleasure , Love , Life