Single Idea 18329

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide]

Full Idea

We have no power to prevent ourselves being born: but we can rectify this error - for sometimes it is an error.

Gist of Idea

Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 8.36)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.88