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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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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…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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…
— Octavio Paz
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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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