The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to… — Gustave Le Bon 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
The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“As joy dwindles with the years I wistfully recall When the christmas tree Looked ten feet tall And the presents under it… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“Both Bratva and thieves in law would like to call themselves nihilists and anarchists because they don’t support the established government, but… — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
The Stockholm syndrome of life. We're the prisoners to our bondage. Death is the entrance into the divine of nothing. We're the… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“No, what one wanted, really, was the city or anyone in it to see how one suffered. Of course, this being New… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The downfall of liberty which in every case followed the success of these attacks demonstrates in hard facts what we said before:… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The new atheists show a disturbing lack of understanding of or concern about the complexity and ambiguity of modern experience, and their… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning. — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
“Human race spoilers: we go extinct and none of this shit matters at all. So just enjoy yourself.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is… — Dmitry Pisarev Copy Share Image
Our own civilization has lost its way, and this makes us even more vulnerable to Islamist nihilism. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending -… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ...… — Hubert Harrison Copy Share Image
![“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the…” quote by Lester Bangs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/36c/lester-bangs-9750_action_the-twin-concepts-of-nihilism-and-the-an_2728698.jpg)
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