Nihilism Quotes

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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou
Nothing is true, everything is permitted. — William S. Burroughs
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold.… — Albert Camus
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact… — Octavio Paz
The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they… — Billy Corgan
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and… — Armond White
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is… — Alain Badiou
Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't… — Gorgias
Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism. — John Milbank
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. — Dean Ornish
The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism â€” nay, it is identical with nihilism, — Leo Strauss
That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to… — Harvey Mansfield
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. — Irving Kristol
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain,… — Chris Hedges
Fact is, the desperate desire to be cool has skewed our culture toward nihilism, carelessness, and ineptitude. It is now cool to be an idiot.… — Greg Gutfeld
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism. — Rollo May
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth
Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism. — Ayelet Waldman
The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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