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ALBERT CAMUS

“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism”

ALBERT CAMUS

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

“Everything in the world displeases me; but, above all, my displeasures in everything displeases me”

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

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JOHN MARMYSZ

“Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power. Nihilism reminds us t...

JOHN MARMYSZ

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REBECCA SOLNIT

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

REBECCA SOLNIT

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MIKHAIL BAKUNINRB

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

MIKHAIL BAKUNINRB

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Nihilism Quotes: For knowing the meaning of nothing

Nihilism Quotes: For knowing the meaning of nothing

Friedrich Nietzsche is what comes to mind when we say "Nihilism". He's a German philosopher and the one who provided a detailed discretion and diagnosis of nihilism; that all values are baseless and so things are meaningless. It's an extremely pessimistic and full of radical skepticism philosophy...

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JOHN GREEN

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

JOHN GREEN

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BLAISE CENDRARS

“what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There’s only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgus...

BLAISE CENDRARS

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering”

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

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ALBERT CAMUS

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself”

ALBERT CAMUS

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UNKNOWN

“I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an ac...

UNKNOWN

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Nihilism Philosophy - How to live in nihilism

Nihilism Philosophy - How to live in nihilism

Nihilism is not a friendly philosophy; it exploits humanity's bad side, and it may irritate you. Except for what we give it, there is no objective order or structure in the world. The nihilist realizes that all values are baseless and that reason is powerless after penetrating the facades that su...

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The world may look distressing, which in fact, it is, as negativity weights more in the force; the act of balancing has no significance, since everyone is technically cynical to each other.

These ideas of philosophy are profoundly great for people who doubt out existence.

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