Quotes About Nihilism

In its own way, though, that nihilism itself can be comforting, and this is another place where I quibble. If it's all futile, we're excused from trying. And not trying is so much easier than trying-and-failing. It's soothing to have an excuse for hopelessness. And we do have a cultural bias toward believing that the most cynical response to any situation is the wisest and most knowledgable one.

L'esthétisme poussé à sa limite tend vers une sorte de neutralisme moral, qui n'est pas loin d'un nihilisme éthique.

you always felt they were pawns in an indifferent universe, butts of an existential joke with no punch line.

You see, the universe has no meaning and there was no purpose in my being born into it. I never listen to conversations which begin, 'We are all put into the world for...' because we weren't put into the world. We just happened and we have no purpose and that's fine.

Our own civilization has lost its way, and this makes us even more vulnerable to Islamist nihilism.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My father has taught me not to succumb to nihilism, and my mother has taught me the value of hard work and determination.

Una mente indefinida y apática es una mente voluble y despersonalizada, que no es capaz de reconocerse a sí misma. Es líquida: se escapa, se derrama, toma la forma del recipiente que la contiene o permanece indefinida e inconsistente. Vaciada de toda idea, la mente líquida le coquetea al nihilismo, no fija posición ni se compromete.

formal political life is a theater of nihilism: the political sphere is where nihilism is played out in raw form and also a site for overcoming or pushing back against nihilism through pursuit of worldly causes. In our time, both potentials are there, and routinely collide.

Nihilism: Negativity as an approach to philosophy and life. Various types of Nihilism range from negating the existence of everything to negating the possibility of knowing anything to just negating social and political mores and morality in general. Not a reassuring philosophy. Always reminds me of King Lear's line, "Nothing will come of nothing.

Meaninglessness in philosophical nihilism covers a wide spectrum, ranging from Metaphysical Nihilism, a negation of all existence, to Moral and Political Nihilism, a negation of a society's values and laws in a world that we acknowledge exists but has the potential to be better. In this last sense, it is easy to see how breaking away from the inherited truths of society, governments, and religion can make life more enjoyable in an old-fashioned, hedonistic sort of way.

Nothing is more powerful than this nihilism, an angry readiness to throw everything overboard, a willingness, a longing to become part of dissolution. This emotion is one of the strongest reasons why wars continue. And

Nothing is more powerful than this nihilism, an angry readiness to throw everything overboard, a willingness, a longing to become part of dissolution.

The sin of our times is the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

tolerance is] the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

Human efforts are ineffective" (N'atthi purisakare) was the slogan of the Âjîvikä(s).

You can only get so many belly laughs out of nihilism and the price of black eyeliner.

I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset.

Horror, almost better than any of the other genres, pits the will to live against the will toward nihilism. I just think that's worth exploring. I don't know what is more important, actually, to explore than that very dynamic.

Nothing makes any sense. Nothing means anything. You're born, you live, you die. That's it.

I]f you live today you breathe in nihilism. In or out of the Church it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now

Qu'est-ce que le nihilisme ? Rozanov répond parfaitement à la question quand il écrit : "La représentation est terminée. Le public se lève. Il est temps d'enfiler son manteau et de rentrer à la maison. On se retourne : plus de manteau ni de maison.