The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone. — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The idea that we are to be absorbed into the Deity is Gnostic in its origins and is quite antithetical to Christianity."… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
“Nihilism, she thought, is solely a privilege of the living. Respect will be the courtesy I extend to the dead.” — R. Curtis Venture Copy Share Image
Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and… — Oliver Stone 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
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
Stoics follow each other like sheep. Wanting glorification for their nature as to say they think they're cosmological leaders over nature. — Jeremy Limn 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 Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I think that today, integration is the name of the game and not separating these things out, and not trying to find… — Surya Das 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
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
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
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The whole point is that time passes. That things fade. He is already hard to remember. Look, I used to cry because… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
“Most of her friends owned laptops and seemed to spend more time with their phones than anything else. Steffy kept her latest… — Jaime Allison Parker 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
“Nihilism is a disease of the soul. It can never be completely cured, and there is always the possibility of relapse. There… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things,… — Mort W. Lumsden 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
“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat… — John Green Copy Share Image
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.” — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image