“As for the significance of my nihilism…in a word, it is the foundation of my thoughts. The goal of my activities is… — Mikiso Hane Copy Share Image
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The nihilist looks around at everything and comes to terms with what seems to be obvious. The sun is one tiny dying… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything,… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Let’s act like sphinxes, however falsely, until we reach the point of no longer knowing who we are. For we are, in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.” — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“No one is harming you, you are fine, you sit in silence, alone in a desolate park after the rain, or in… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of… — Alfred Dreyfus Copy Share Image
All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“My priority is not to be called an atheist or believer, but to be human. My priority is not to peddle any… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated. — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems. — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
“It was on this day, during this terrible and wonderful run, that a thought occurred to me, a thought which has never… — Matthew Inman Copy Share Image
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is this outer reach of existential abnegation – the moment where subjective identity deserts itself and becomes enslaved without consciousness of… — Emily Apter Copy Share Image
