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All Things Are Nothing To Me
Books about Max Stirner used to be few and far between. I first learned about him by reading the marginal press (Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, Alternative Press Review, Non-Serviam), and from John Clark’s short book, Max Stirner’s Egoism (which I bought at Bound Together Books on Haight Street), and R.W.K. Patterson’s The Nihilistic Egoist (which I checked out of the San Francisco Public
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"The breakthrough novel for Mishima, a very brave work with autobiographical hints of what he would come to be. He had made a fetish of military men meeting brutal ends, particularly obsessed by the image of St Sebastian being pierced by arrows.
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“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 that we are not gods, and that despite all of the accomplishments and wonders of civilization, humans cannot alter the fact that they possess only a finite amount of mastery and control over their own destinies.”
― Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism
― Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism
“Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.”
― The Path of Philosophy: Truth, Wonder, and Distress
― The Path of Philosophy: Truth, Wonder, and Distress
“Though violent action is sometimes associated with nihilism, what makes such activity nihilistic, it seems, is the belief that ultimately nothing will come out of it. When nihlists throw themselves into activity it is with the understanding that its only goal is the expression and dissipation of their life's energy. Any creative product will eventually be consumed by decay. Since there is nothing that humans can do to mend the separation between themselves and reality, they can never actualize their supreme standards of worth and value. This world must remain substandard no matter what we do to try and change the situation.”
― Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism
― Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism
“Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.”
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“Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.”
― Moralist
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“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
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