"A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant."
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"[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions."
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"Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound."
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"Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves."
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"Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism."
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"If you want to scare people, you talk about evil."
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"I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else."
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"I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?"
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"I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism."
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"The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world."
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"Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too."
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"I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism."
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