“Many were incarcerated with the aberrant prosaic possibilities of ataraxia. Only the mentally sensitive few were cognizant of the nuisance to serenity… — O.Z. Napaeae Copy Share Image
“It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Death appears as the harsh victory of the law of our ancestors of the dimension of our becoming. It is a fact… — Frere Dupont Copy Share Image
“As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“One day about a month ago, I really hit bottom. You know, I just felt that in a Godless universe, I didn't… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...only the one who knows and practices the iconoclastic fury of destruction can possess the joy born of freedom, of that unique… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
“Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'! I say nothing of the sufferings… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“When we hear the ancient bells growling on a Sunday morning we ask ourselves: Is it really possible! This, for a jew,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The place was a truck stop town. Large 18 wheelers lined the sidewalks and cafes. Giant diesel motors roaring their exhaust into… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“Spoilers follow I started reading the third act of Hamlet, and I got about two pages in when I realized there's no… — Megan Crewe Copy Share Image
“Dalin must have whiffed the anarch in me, a man with no ties to state or society. Still, he was unable to… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“If the Christian dogmas of a revengeful God, universal sinfulness, election by divine grace and the danger of eternal damnation were true,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Life is a useless passion, an exciting journey of a mammal in survival mode. Each day is a miracle, a blessing unexplored… — Mohadesa Najumi Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than… — George Pattison 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
Levelling at its maximum is like the stillness of death, where one can hear one's own heartbeat, a stillness like death, into… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“What is causing this mysterious perpetual air of inconvenience to slowly engulf the evening. It is not merely emptiness but an awakening… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We're nothing, but we're everything. There is nothing in everything and everything in nothing. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Life has no purpose no meaning. We're but meaningless, and everything else is meaningless. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.” — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
“It may well be that, when Christianity passes away from a culture, nihilism is the inevitable consequence, precisely because of what Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“I didn’t belong to myself anymore. I had no mouth or eyes or thoughts. I didn’t need anything to change or be… — Sofie Laguna Copy Share Image
