Nihilism Quotes - Page 2

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

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

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

To think is to say 'no.'

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 what happens in Occidental history.

A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.

Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.

The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!

The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all armed actions subjects the force of circumstances to the force of events.

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism.

Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected to worry a tiger - even if a tiger can be said to worry about anything at all - and certainly cannot be expected to worry its genes.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.

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

Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.