The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.” — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
“Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To live in the awareness that life is impending annihilation. Is the only true way to live. Chaos is everywhere, and for… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You don't realize all the things you have in this world, much more than you need, and you do much less than… — Roberto Canessa Copy Share Image
The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism. — Ellen Willis 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 Universe will now be set right. Made over to fit my unique view of what should be. Let Nihilism reign supreme! — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
“Ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis: where you are worth nothing, there you should want nothing” — Arnold Geulincx Copy Share Image
The attack against dogmas as such, therefore, strongly resembles the struggle against the general legal foundations of a state, and , as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
I feel like an expressionist nihilist deep in my heart. And I think nihilism can stop the wheel from going around, around,… — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring… — John Marmysz 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Some might say what I’m recommending amounts to electoral nihilism. We would end up giving the presidency over to Republicans and their… — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image