Existentialism Quote by Yukio Mishima

“Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Man, you see, swings between nihilism and spirituality. Man, you see, swings between utmost bliss and the feelings of utter despair. It’s a rollercoaster,…

— Abhaidev

“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never in between…

— Abhaidev

“But the purpose of philosophy is to rationalize mysticism: not by explaining it away, but by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations, rationally coordinated.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“For mysticism proper - as distinguished from philosophical theory or vague feeling or literary pleasure - is a practical thing, something more than a…

— Fr. Augustine Baker

“This is Europe's true predicament: together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man, confidence in…

— Nietzsche Fiedrich

Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life,…

— Ray Brassier

“When a human life is open to all that humanity can be, humanity and divinity flow together as one. It was and is a…

— John Shelby Spong

“two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.”

— William Ralph Inge

“The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive…

— Joseph Conrad

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

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon…

— William Hazlitt