Becoming Quote by Rollo May

“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening our eyes…

— William Barrett

“Idealism kills,” the philosopher Nietzsche had warned”

— David Horowitz

I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term, but as…

— David E. Cooper

...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise…

— Irving Kristol

In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of…

— Martin Heidegger

“If the Christian dogmas of a revengeful God, universal sinfulness, election by divine grace and the danger of eternal damnation were true, it would…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“you make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish, its just that you're scared silly, frightened of life, of men of action, of action itself,…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say…

— Robert C. Solomon

“We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces flooded upon…

— Rollo May

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended…

— Rollo May

“The idea that we are to be absorbed into the Deity is Gnostic in its origins and is quite antithetical to Christianity." ~R. Alan…

— R. Alan Woods

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker

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…

— Armond White

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is…

— Michael Ignatieff