Nihilism Quotes

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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

What can be broken, should be broken.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

The point is there ain't no point.

Say what you want about the deaf.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

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.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

Habit: A shackle for the free.

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

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

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

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.

[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.

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.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

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.

To think is to say 'no.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.

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

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.

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

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

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

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

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

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

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.

Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good

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

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.

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