Nihilist Quotes

• Recuerdo que cuando era joven creía que la muerte era un fenómeno del cuerpo; ahora sé que no es más que una función de la mente, y de las mentes que sufren el duelo. Los nihilistas dicen que es el fin; los fundamentalistas, el principio; cuando en realidad no es más que un inquilino o una familia que se marcha de una vivienda o de una ciudad.

  William Faulkner

  Mudanza, Realidad, Duelo

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). "William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [y] John Steinbeck".

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• You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Parent

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• El hombre del futuro que nos redimirá no sólo del ideal hasta ahora reinante, sino también de lo que estaba destinado a surgir de él, la gran náusea, la voluntad de la nada, el nihilismo; este golpe de campana del mediodía y de la gran decisión que libera de nuevo la voluntad y devuelve su meta a la tierra y su esperanza al hombre; este Anticristo y anti-nihilista; este vencedor de Dios y de la nada - debe venir un día.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Men, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.532, Modern Library

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

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Nihilism, Doe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.69, Vintage

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• Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

  Marilyn Manson

  Optimistic, Artist, I Can

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• El mundo se ha vuelto triste porque un títere fue una vez melancólico. El nihilista, ese extraño mártir que no tiene fe, que va a la hoguera sin entusiasmo y muere por lo que no cree, es un producto puramente literario. Lo inventó Turguéniev y lo completó Dostoievski. Robespierre salió de las páginas de Rousseau con la misma seguridad que el Palacio del Pueblo surgió de los escombros de una novela. La literatura siempre se anticipa a la vida. No la copia, sino que la amolda a su propósito.

  Oscar Wilde

  Creer, Gente, Rosa

  Oscar Wilde (1999). "De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings", p.159, Ediciones Wordsworth.

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• Estoy muy orgulloso de que algunos piensen que soy un peligro para la salud intelectual de los estudiantes. Cuando la gente empieza a pensar en la salud en las actividades intelectuales, creo que hay algo que no funciona. En su opinión soy un hombre peligroso, ya que soy un cripto-marxista, un irracionalista, un nihilista.

  Michel Foucault

  Hombres, Pensamiento, Gente

  Michel Foucault (1988). "Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault", Univ of Massachusetts Press.

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• Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power, probably the stars manipulating our cellular magnets. We think we have all this agency, but do we? Do we really? Can you choose to be brave when you were born a coward? Can we be deprogrammed from the brainwashing that we grew up in? I think we can, but I think we need a lot of help.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Thinking, Brave, Coward

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

  Albert Camus

  Nihilism, Part Time

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• Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences, never understanding the connection between outer and inner phenomena or interdependent phenomena, looking for explanations only from objects through nihilist habit instead of from the subjective experience of their own minds.

  Thinley Norbu

  Pensar, Comprender, Mente

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• Sí, soy imprudente y a veces no expreso ninguna preocupación por mi propio bienestar, y expreso una visión misántropa del mundo, pero para tener una opinión no se puede ser nihilista.

  Marilyn Manson

  Puntos de vista, Mundo, Opinión

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• We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

  Richard M. Weaver

  World, Action, Energetic

  Letter to R. T. Eubanks (January 19, 1961) in "Language is Sermonic", p. 56, 1970.

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• The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

  Iván Turguéniev

  Facts, Dunces

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (1998). “Fathers and Sons”, p.54, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

  John Green

  Nihilismo, sin sentido

  Entrevista con Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. Diciembre de 2012.

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• To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Oposición

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.12, Basic Books

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• I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

  Billy Corgan

  Christian, Thinking, Light

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• El partido de Lincoln y de la Libertad se transmutó en el partido de los desarrolladores de pantanos y de los farsantes corporativos, de los economistas basados en la fe, de los matones fundamentalistas con Biblias, de los cristianos de conveniencia, de los racistas por cuenta propia, de los chicos de fraternidad misántropos, de los enanos chillones de la radio AM, de los tramposos fiscales, de los nihilistas con pantalones de golf, de los camisas pardas con raya diplomática, de los magnates de las fábricas de explotación ... Republicanos: La razón nº 1 por la que el resto del mundo piensa que somos sordos, tontos y peligrosos.

  Garrison Keillor

  Cristiano, Fiesta, Golf

  "We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore", These Times, 26 de agosto de 2004.

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• Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

  Leonard Baskin

  Arte, Pensamiento, Ser

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• I also eschew the identity of "puppeteer" it is a concept that blurs the boundaries of discrete objects and persons. I do think Anarchist Nihilist Puppet Show is my day job.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Thinking, Identity, Anarchist

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Men, Trying, World

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• Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

  Philip Johnson

  Believe, Rivers, Steps

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

  Desconocido

  Father, Nihilism, Quaker

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• The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value, but instead of curling up in despair, or simply going along with the crowd like the 'passive' nihilist, he will recognize himself as the sole source of truths and values to live by.

  David E. Cooper

  Religious, Despair, Crowds

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Way, Decent, Opposition

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• La vida", escribió Garp, "lamentablemente no está estructurada como una buena novela a la antigua. En su lugar, se produce un final cuando los que están destinados a agotarse se han agotado. Lo único que queda es el recuerdo. Pero incluso un nihilista tiene memoria.

  John Irving

  Memories, Ends, Peter

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