Nietzsche Nihilism Quotes

#1. My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.

Damon Lindelof

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. It is not easy to fling oneself down stairs in a skirt; there is always the risk that you will tangle your legs and go headlong. But I made it.

Marie Brennan

#4. Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Charles Simmons

#5. I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Nihilism, then, is the recognition of the long waste of strength, the agony of the "in vain," insecurity, the lack of any opportunity to recover and to regain composure- - being ashamed in front of oneself, as if one had deceived oneself all too long. -

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. 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

#9. 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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God. ... Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.

Seraphim Rose

#12. It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. 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.

Martin Heidegger

#15. A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

Thomas Keller

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

Rollo May

#17. This is Europe's true predicament: together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man, confidence in man, indeed the will to man. Now the sight of man makes us weary. What is nihilism today if not that?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. We belong to each other now, the beast declares as it grabs my limp body and takes me up into the darkness.

Frankie Ash