I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else. — John Green Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t about believing this or that, it wasn’t about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“If there is no extant God and no extant gods, no good and no evil, no right and no wrong, no meaning… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find… — Lawrence M. Krauss 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
“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“To speak evil' is to speak this fateful, paradoxical situation that is the reversible concatenation of good and evil. That is to… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Milkparade "If you can master nonsense as well as you have already learned to master sense, then each will expose the other… — Malaclypse the Younger Copy Share Image
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
