The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism, — Leo Strauss 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
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
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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 teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him? — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“A little more fervor in my nihilism and I might — gainsaying everything — shake off my doubts and triumph over them.… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the… — Simon Critchley 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
The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances,… — Andreas Baader Copy Share Image
“Bruno withdrew from the field of history more resolutely than Vigo; that is why I prefer the former’s retrospect but the latter’s… — Ernst Jünger 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
“We trust, that is to say, that there is no substantial criterion by which to judge our choices that stands higher than… — David Bentley Hart 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
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we… — Sharon Salzberg 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“But just below the grim tranquility he had learned to display, he cursed with boiling intensity the ambitious men who used him… — Karl Marlantes 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
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
