“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.” — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning. — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Human race spoilers: we go extinct and none of this shit matters at all. So just enjoy yourself.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“What's disappointing is that it's just another mold, you leave one cliche and end up right back in another. Not really that… — Virginie Despentes Copy Share Image
Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves.They say: All that is worthlessand want to create no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Horror, almost better than any of the other genres, pits the will to live against the will toward nihilism. I just think… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“That is why it has been repeatedly noticed that the human life is a theatre where the mask show takes place, and… — Arvydas Šliogeris Copy Share Image
The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Fact is, the desperate desire to be cool has skewed our culture toward nihilism, carelessness, and ineptitude. It is now cool to… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“On the pediment of the town hall, Death turns his sunglasses to mark the hours. No one takes any notice. it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“Gdyby wszyscy myśleli tak samo jak ja, nikt nigdy nie wyszedłby ze swojego pokoju. I byłby to dobry świat. W którym nie… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is a disease of the soul. It can never be completely cured, and there is always the possibility of relapse. There… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We're decaying pieces of cabbage, on a cosmological journey to destroy everything. With no set purpose, but that is given by society.… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat… — John Green Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Our own civilization has lost its way, and this makes us even more vulnerable to Islamist nihilism. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is… — Dmitry Pisarev Copy Share Image
Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“But the conquest of fear was what fascinated them. The continual ecstasy of vanquishing and the consciousness that no one could vanquish… — Fydor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
“...not positive about the definition of existentialism but it seems like the opposite of nihilism in which case I suppose I may… — Autumn Copy Share Image
If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
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