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Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence ...
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.
Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.
...not positive about the definition of existentialism but it seems like the opposite of nihilism in which case I suppose I may be.
A little more fervor in my nihilism and I might - gainsaying everything - shake off my doubts and triumph over them. But I have only the taste of negation, not its grace.
Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism.
I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
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.
Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.
Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.
I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.
Nattering nabobs of negativism ...
The born again nihilist has nothing to blame for their fall
In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another.
Psychotherapy would not only reflect a nihilistic philosophy but also, even though unwillingly and unwittingly, transmit to the patient what is actually a caricature rather than a true picture of man. First
anti-intellectual
blissful as ignorance,
Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being
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.
I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are with their weapons. Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us.
I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.
In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
frugivorous also.
I have a nihilistic attitude so it's like, the new gay ... it's popular.
He's a typical existentialist. And that's a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.
I'm an idealist
who has outgrown
my idealism
I have nothing to do
the rest of my life
but do it
and the rest of my life
to do it
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
Neurosis may be called a negating of possibilities; it is the shrinking up of one's world. The development of the self is this radically curtailed.
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.
A person without regrets is a nincompoop.
Futilitarianism.
Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadistic
You are nothing but what you think. That is existentialism.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins.
Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.
Single-minded to the point of recklessness
The atheists I know, virtually all of whom are happy and mentally healthy, might more properly be called anti-nihilists. We are mainly optimists who love our lives and find them to be full of meaning and purpose.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequence bitter.
If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't "happiness", then what is?
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.
Namely, the feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for. They are haunted by the experience of their inner emptiness, a void within themselves; they are caught in that situation which I have called the existential vacuum.
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.
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
To me, you're either an activist or an inactivist.
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.
Everything but happiness is neurosis.
I suppose that without a God, NASA is my anti-nihilism.
Cynicism is a powerful anesthetic we use to numb ourselves to pain, but which also, by its nature, numbs us to truth and joy.
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.
I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.
People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.
So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and futile.
I'm a neo-Luddite.
Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists ... the ego dissolves into immortality.
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.
I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.
I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
His professed philosophy of "Shandyism" is a defiant frivolity that declines to take the world as seriously as it tries to insist upon. In
A cynic is a frustrated idealist.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
I have no particular desire to live. I have no particular desire to be killed. It is a matter of indifference to me. I do not think I am altogether right.
Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.
A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me
a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.
I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.
Tendentious point of view;
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
Negative mindset, negative lifestyle
My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means.
In their quest for a life without failure, suffering, or doubt, that is what they achieve: a life empty of all those things that make a human life meaningful.
Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.
Someone told me I'm a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties ... they live like ants.
My unhappiness precluded all else; unhappiness is a kind of narcissism, in which nothing that does not resonate with your unhappiness can interest you.
At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I'll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I'm in a position to defeat stereotypes.
Nothing makes one so easily a fatalist as indifference.
A mere society form of Atheism.