Nothing & Everything Quotes

“Perhaps we don’t have morality because we need it but, instead, we need it because we have it.”
― Val N. Tine, Nothing & Everything: How to stop fearing nihilism and embrace the void

“Courageous intelligence is no nobler than blissful ignorance.”
― Val N. Tine, Nothing & Everything: How to stop fearing nihilism and embrace the void

“They imply that an answer is necessary, that without one our lives are meaningless, that absent a compass we will be forever lost. So we become convinced that we need a reason to value things and, when that reason disappears, so does that value.”
― Val N. Tine, Nothing & Everything: How to stop fearing nihilism and embrace the void

“Our actions and values are not part of a broader struggle, do not have a deeper meaning, and do not accord with any transcendent principles of goodness or rationality.”
― Val N. Tine, Nothing & Everything: How to stop fearing nihilism and embrace the void