Top Nihilism Quotes Collection

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Image of Iggy Pop
Nihilism is best done by professionals.
- Iggy Pop
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Image of Ayelet Waldman
Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
- Ayelet Waldman
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Image of Tarthang Tulku
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.
- Tarthang Tulku
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Image of Gustave Le Bon
The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.
- Gustave Le Bon
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Image of Peter Murphy
[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.
- Peter Murphy
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Image of Jimmy Carr
Say what you want about the deaf.
- Jimmy Carr
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Image of Dean Cavanagh
Nihilism, there's really nothing to it.
- Dean Cavanagh
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Image of Torbjorn Tannsjo
Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.
- Torbjorn Tannsjo
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Image of Roberto Canessa
You don't realize all the things you have in this world, much more than you need, and you do much less than you can.
- Roberto Canessa
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Image of Ray Brassier
Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the future when there is no longer any transcendental guarantor, a positive end of time as ultimate reconciliation or redemption, ensuring a pay-off for this investment? Nietzsche's solution - his attempted overcoming of nihilism - consists in affirming the senselessness of becoming as such - all becoming, without reservation or discrimination.
- Ray Brassier
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Image of Cynthia Daignault
There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.
- Cynthia Daignault
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Image of Robert McNamara
Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
- Robert McNamara
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of George Monbiot
Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.
- George Monbiot
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Image of Jean Baudrillard
Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.
- Jean Baudrillard
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Image of A. A. Milne
There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.
- A. A. Milne
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
Habit: A shackle for the free.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of David Foster Wallace
Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.
- David Foster Wallace
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Image of Rebecca Solnit
There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.
- Rebecca Solnit
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Albert Camus
One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
- Albert Camus
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Image of Rob Brezsny
Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.
- Rob Brezsny
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Image of John Dewey
No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.
- John Dewey
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Image of John Green
I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.
- John Green
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Image of Hannah Arendt
Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound.
- Hannah Arendt
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Image of Rollo May
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
- Rollo May
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Image of Cormac McCarthy
The point is there ain't no point.
- Cormac McCarthy
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