Quotes by Nihilism 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. Cornel West mastery nihilism civilization There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning. Cynthia Daignault significance nihilism Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated. Dagobert D. Runes deeds nihilism evil For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open. David Bentley Hart despair rejection nihilism I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term, but as used by some existentialists, it nicely captures what Nietzsche admired - the resolve of an individual person to forge his or her own 'table of values', to be emancipated from strait-jacketing conventions, traditions, and ideologies. As embodied in the 'Overman', authenticity is the antidote to 'bad' nihilism. David E. Cooper kind tables nihilism In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism, but the completion of it. For what can be more destructive of truth and value than the doctrine that these are simply the impositions on the world of human exercises of power? David E. Cooper doctrine nihilism exercise Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism. David Foster Wallace stills nihilism Nihilism, there's really nothing to it. Dean Cavanagh nihilism Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. Dean Ornish despair special nihilism Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good Dmitry Pisarev rubbish broken nihilism What can be broken, should be broken. Dmitry Pisarev broken should nihilism The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering. Dorothy Day nihilism children thinking I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism. Ellen Willis struggle nihilism believe To think is to say 'no.' Emile Chartier human-condition nihilism thinking If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... 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. Flannery O'Connor fighting church nihilism The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations. Frederick C. Beiser subjectivism struggle nihilism The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it. Frederick C. Beiser nihilism philosophy mean 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. Fyodor Dostoevsky quality nihilism men Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me. Friedrich Nietzsche dissatisfaction nihilism world Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche nihilism doe mean «123456»
