Nihilism

THE REJECTION OF ALL RELIGIOUS

AND MORAL PRINCIPLES, IN THE
BELIEF THAT LIFE IS MEANINGLES

Do nihilists have values?

Bob Black NIHILISTS BELIEVE ALL VALUES ARE
BASELESS AND THAT NOTHING CAN BE
KNOWN OR COMMUNICATED. A TRUE
NIHILIST WOULD BELIEVE IN NOTHING,
HAVE NO LOYALTIES, AND NO PURPOSE
OTHER THAN, PERHAPS, AN IMPULSE TO
DESTROY.

Giorgio Agamben
Spoken from nihilists themselves...
“IT IS A SELF-DECEPTION OF
PHILOSOPHERS AND MORALISTS TO
IMAGINE THAT THEY ESCAPE
DECADENCE BY OPPOSING IT. THAT IS
BEYOND THEIR WILL; AND, HOWEVER
Lee Edelman LITTLE THEY ACKNOWLEDGE IT, ONE
LATER DISCOVERS THAT THEY WERE
AMONG THE MOST POWERFUL
PROMOTERS OF DECADENCE.”

“IF WE BELIEVE IN NOTHING, IF

NOTHING HAS ANY MEANING AND IF
WE CAN AFFIRM NO VALUES
WHATSOEVER, THEN EVERYTHING IS
Max Stirner POSSIBLE AND NOTHING HAS ANY
IMPORTANCE.”

"ANYONE WHO RENOUNCES LIFE BECAUSE HE

FEELS THAT IT IS NOTHING BUT PAIN AND
SORROW AND DOESN’T FIND IN HIMSELF THE
HEROIC COURAGE TO KILL HIMSELF IS — IN MY
OPINION — A GROTESQUE POSER AND A
HELPLESS PERSON; JUST AS ONE IS A PITIFULLY
Renzo Novatore INFERIOR BEING IF HE BELIEVES THAT THE
SACRED TREE OF HAPPINESS IS A TWISTED
PLANT ON ALL APES WILL BE ABLE TO
SCRAMBLE IN THE MORE OR LESS NEAR
FUTURE, AND THAT THEN THE SHADOW OF
PAIN WILL BE DRIVEN AWAY BY THE
PHOSPHORESCENT FIREWORKS OF THE TRUE
GOOD..."