Nihilism Quotes

“Existentialism reveals that in trying to avoid responsibility, we end up avoiding freedom, and that in trying to avoid death, we end up avoiding life. Nihilism is thus seen as the result of our fear of death, and so the more we flee from death, the more nihilistic we become. To say that life is meaningless, as the existentialists do, is not to advocate nihilism but to combat it.”
― Nolen Gertz, Nihilism

“We try to live lives that are contrary to life.”
― Nolen Gertz, Nihilism

“To make God responsible for everything is to make humanity responsible for nothing, which is to make human existence meaningless, which is to make God's judgement of our existence meaningless, which is to make God's existence meaningless.”
― Nolen Gertz, Nihilism

“Yet, as Heidegger helps us to see, the true danger posed by companies like Facebook and Google is not that they violate our privacy, but that they redefine what we think “privacy” means. Facebook and Google—not to mention tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Tinder, and Twitter—all defend their privacy-endangering practices by simply pointing out that they are only giving users what users want.”
― Nolen Gertz, Nihilism