The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone. — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“It may well be that, when Christianity passes away from a culture, nihilism is the inevitable consequence, precisely because of what Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We're nothing, but we're everything. There is nothing in everything and everything in nothing. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism, — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“I didn’t belong to myself anymore. I had no mouth or eyes or thoughts. I didn’t need anything to change or be… — Sofie Laguna Copy Share Image
“the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering..… — John Green Copy Share Image
Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“Humans cannot live without illusions. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote… — John Gray Copy Share Image
He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“The choice today is revolt. Igor Stravinsky wrote, “The old original sin was one of knowledge, the new original sin is one… — Robert R. Reilly Copy Share Image
“By engaging with film illusions both actively and passively – as I attempt to do in this book – we strengthen the… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The millennials who are getting incendiary think pieces in The New York Times are mad about this, the systemic screwing over of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
“The downfall of liberty which in every case followed the success of these attacks demonstrates in hard facts what we said before:… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Atheism ... goes back to the Ancient Greek (a — a negative prefix, theos — god), evidencing the antiquity of the outlook… — Valerii A. Kuvakin Copy Share Image
“What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed,… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
