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Hope Through Nihilism: A New Anthem for a Secular World
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Toutes ces expressions du nihilisme au sens de Nietzsche (la cosmologie grecque, les grandes religions, l’humanisme des Lumières) ont en commun cette structure dualiste qui consiste à nier la terre au nom du ciel, l’ici-bas au nom de l’au-delà, le réel au nom de l’idéal.
Claude CAPELIER • La Plus belle histoire de la philosophie (French Edition)
This desperate remark – unverifiable, and anyway meaningless
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
Much of the Cathedral’s control is based on the concept of illegitimacy. It’s not just that one’s opinion is incorrect; one doesn’t even have the right to hold it to begin with, sometimes even as a hypothesis.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
One kills oneself because life is not worth living, that is certainly a truth - yet an unfruitful one because it is a truism. But that insult to existence, that flat denial in which it is plunged come from the fact that it has no meaning? Does its absurdity require one to escape it through hope or suicide - this is what must be clarified, hunted do
... See moretruth is a problem now for everyone, if the idea seems empty or useless in ‘the era of social media’, ‘science denialism’, ‘conspiracy theories’ and suchlike, maybe that just means that ‘everyone’ has caught up to where philosophy was in 1922.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
I am an enemy to all the gods. Prometheus1
George P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
the euphoria of pessimism
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