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Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
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The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so…
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I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity…
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Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how…
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Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the…
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God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for…
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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the…
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Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose…
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But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the…
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Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion…
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For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and…
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The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.
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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
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Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
— William S. Burroughs
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can…
— Albert Camus
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was…
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only…
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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
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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
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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established…
— Alain Badiou
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Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge…
— Gorgias
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Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism.
— Unknown Author
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Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
— Dean Ornish
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The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism,
— Leo Strauss
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