Quotes of: Nihilism Keyword

Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power. Nih...

Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

Life

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequ...

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Alain Badiou

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Leonard Baskin

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

Memnoch the Devil

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

Sebastian Horsley

In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another.

The Return of the King

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into nihility.

Lionel Suggs

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

Ellen Willis

Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

Bruce Springsteen

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.

Yukio Mishima

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

De Divinatione

True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.

Adbusters #84 Pop Nihilism

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

Alan Moore

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. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Albert Camus

In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.

Cathleen Schine

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.

Broken for You

Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.

Sam Harris