“She's studying the Existentialists this month. Asked for a study day last week to kill an Arab on the beach.” — Christopher Moore 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
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.” — Vipin Behari Goyal Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your… — William Law 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
Time and time again, our species has escaped existential threats by reinventing ourselves, finding new skills not coded in our genes to… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialectical consequences inherent in it, expressing them in… — Kierkegaard, Søren Copy Share Image
“Man's primary will to know struggles against the selfsatisfied formalism of empty learning which drugs man into the illusory calm of fulfillment.… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not metaphysics. Maybe it’s existential. I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Anybody who has done high school physics knows Newton’s Third Law. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You… — Sean J. Halford Copy Share Image
“But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst. — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
“The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.” — Chandrashekar Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. —VIKTOR FRANKL, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Logotherapy, Man’s Search for… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
To be evil is to suffer incredulity of your person who is faceted by the non-effects of a responsive behavior. — Isaac Thomas Copy Share Image
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
