“Time is the cruelest of physicians, healing All wounds, but always slowly, looping A surgical needle through the mind’s flesh, experiencing Torment… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“My quietness is a consequence of my deeply entrenched nihilism. I don’t believe there is any real value in my or anyone… — Emily R. Austin Copy Share Image
What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the… — Wyndham Lewis 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
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he… — David Denby Copy Share Image
what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected… — Blaise Cendrars 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
“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
“The nihilist looks around at everything and comes to terms with what seems to be obvious. The sun is one tiny dying… — Jon Morrison 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
“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
“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
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
You know that trying to be a nihilist is real funny. Because you're doing something that you think requires effort. But basically… — Jeremy Limn 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
“As for the significance of my nihilism…in a word, it is the foundation of my thoughts. The goal of my activities is… — Mikiso Hane 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
“But despair and nihilism had been eating into me for years. The more I saw of the sad and futile dead, hovering… — Mike Carey 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
“I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all… — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Life is but a trivial game of hide and seek. A lucid dream of nothingness, but yet we want there to be… — Jeremy Limn 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
“...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
“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
“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
“Nihilism remains partial until it is realized that the reductio ad hominem56 is actually a reductio hominis. “The night brought on by… — Mark C. Taylor Copy Share Image
The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“If there is no extant God and no extant gods, no good and no evil, no right and no wrong, no meaning… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
“Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves… — Fernando Pessoa 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
“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
“humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. we learn from nothing that we do. we create… — Jeffrey Fischer Copy Share Image
“..."I might be entertaining the idea of tamping down my nihilism. Just a bit. Not because life is not meaningless—I think that’s… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
