“But the conquest of fear was what fascinated them. The continual ecstasy of vanquishing and the consciousness that no one could vanquish… — Fydor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The famous atheist Christopher Hitchens once declared that ‘You’re expelled from your mother’s uterus as if shot from a cannon, towards a… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Man, you see, swings between nihilism and spirituality. Man, you see, swings between utmost bliss and the feelings of utter despair. It’s… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, now that I… — Michel Houellebecq 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land… — Stephanie Kallos Copy Share Image
“In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
“I’ve always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit— that the madness that so often accompanies… — Andrew M. Ryan Copy Share Image
“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior… — Armond White Copy Share Image
For me nihilism is a stage of life being meaningless. But there is good in the bad. The stages I go through… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Systems built on hierarchy, separation, and power are finally cracking. But the collapse isn’t the end. It’s the pivot. The evolutionary pressure… — Paule Patterson Copy Share Image
Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,'… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“What helped me survive was realizing that an antidote to nihilism is to create meaning in all aspects of our lives. Making… — Lee Lipsenthal Copy Share Image
I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“Gdyby wszyscy myśleli tak samo jak ja, nikt nigdy nie wyszedłby ze swojego pokoju. I byłby to dobry świat. W którym nie… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“On the pediment of the town hall, Death turns his sunglasses to mark the hours. No one takes any notice. it is… — Anonymous 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
Existentialists try to find the answer to something so simple and that is what nothing is. Nothing is nothing, and if he… — Jeremy Limn 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
“Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan.… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“The lessons in measurement of cloacal forces. Time as a flow of sewage. The excrement of space, scatology of creation. The voiding… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Life has no direct meaning, in other words you give your own life meaning. But for me my life has no meaning,… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
