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  • I. I have not committed the ultimate act of nihilism: I have not killed the queen.†   (source)
  • You all pretend to be cynics and nihilists, but it's your own morality that steers the magazine, and several times I've noticed that it's quite a special sort of morality.†   (source)
  • The law is completely nihilistic.†   (source)
  • The already frantic crowd went rabid; the ranks of uniformed "American" soldiers broke, and if chaos had ruled previously, nihilistic mobocracy now reigned supreme.†   (source)
  • The truce with pessimism-bordering-on-nihilism was a very tenuous one.†   (source)
  • With nihilistic bitterness that sounded absurd coming from anyone so young, the kid with the buzz cut said, "Screw the system."†   (source)
  • And if some keenly sick man could have committed the act in a flash, for reason of mere possibility or nihilistic whim or curiosity, a man like me would have done so for the avoidance of a future day, whose complications—whether happy or not—might simply overwhelm.†   (source)
  • Similar radical views were advanced by the nihilists of the last century, and a little later by some of Dostoievsky's heroes, and still more recently by their direct descendants, the provincial educated classes, who were often ahead of the capitals because they still were in the habit of going to the root of things while in the capitals such an approach was regarded as obsolete and unfashionable.†   (source)
  • And nihilists.†   (source)
  • You're only saying that because you don't know what nihilistic means.   (source)
    nihilistic = related to the belief that there are no universal moral values and that ultimately life is meaningless
  • After a childhood in Kobe, Mutsuhiro attended Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University, where he studied French literature and cultivated an infatuation with nihilism.   (source)
    nihilism = belief that there are no universal moral values and that ultimately life is meaningless
  • Be God, it's not to Bakunin's ghost you ought to pray in your dreams, but to the great Nihilist, Hickey!†   (source)
  • The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.†   (source)
  • They had a moment of cohesion, a moment of tragic affection and union, which drew them together like small jets of flame against all the senseless nihilism of life.†   (source)
  • From the point of view of the present there is such a recklessness in this deliverance of the future that it appears to be nihilistic.†   (source)
  • I tell you Arrowsmith's a medical nihilist and a notoriety-seeker, that's what he is.†   (source)
  • According to my nephew they are more advanced even than the Nihilists.†   (source)
  • The nihilism of the most realistic system for exercising authority in the history of the world?†   (source)
  • Freedom is the law of brotherly love, not of nihilism and malice.†   (source)
  • "No, they are not Nihilists," explained Lebedeff, who seemed much excited.†   (source)
  • The nihilism of the Church, had he said?†   (source)
  • "They are growing into Nihilists!" she repeated over and over again.†   (source)
  • To wit, the insight that realism was true nihilism.†   (source)
  • But we thought...you are not a Nihilist of course?†   (source)
  • The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism.†   (source)
  • "You're a pretty fellow!" said Stepan Arkadyevitch laughing, "and you call me a Nihilist!†   (source)
  • 'And that's called nihilism,' Bazarov repeated again, this time with peculiar rudeness.†   (source)
  • There are a great many Nihilists about nowadays, you know, and indeed it is not to be wondered at.†   (source)
  • 'Nihilism is to cure all our woes, and you, you are our heroes and saviours.†   (source)
  • 'Nihilists,' Arkady said, speaking very distinctly.†   (source)
  • 'Here is Sir Nihilist coming towards us,' he said in an undertone.†   (source)
  • And, to be sure, they were simply geese before, and now they have suddenly turned nihilists.'†   (source)
  • 'It's that high and mighty gentleman, that nihilist, who's knocked all that into his head.†   (source)
  • 'You are certainly a nihilist, I see that,' thought Nikolai Petrovitch.†   (source)
  • There used to be Hegelists, and now there are nihilists.†   (source)
  • Is she a Nihilist, or simply a fool?†   (source)
  • To give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles: to aristocrat and republican, to Nihilist and Tsar, to Capitalist and Socialist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black man white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities, all faiths, all follies, all causes and all crimes.†   (source)
  • When it is not employed as an honest device of classical rhetoric, the purpose of which no healthy mind can doubt for a moment, it becomes a source of depravity, a barrier to civilization, a squalid flirtation with inertia, nihilism, and vice.†   (source)
  • Even atheists reproach me with infidelity and anarchists with nihilism because I cannot endure their moral tirades.†   (source)
  • The movement is, properly speaking, a derivative from Nihilism—though they are only known indirectly, and by hearsay, for they never advertise their doings in the papers.†   (source)
  • Here, negation and the cult of nihilism—there, the eternal yes and the Spirit's loving inclination toward life!†   (source)
  • According to the reports of the most talented gossip-mongers—those who, in every class of society, are always in haste to explain every event to their neighbours—the young gentleman concerned was of good family—a prince—fairly rich—weak of intellect, but a democrat and a dabbler in the Nihilism of the period, as exposed by Mr. Turgenieff.†   (source)
  • Many of our young women have thought fit to cut their hair short, put on blue spectacles, and call themselves Nihilists.†   (source)
  • For progress was pure nihilism, and the liberal bourgeois was in truth a man of nothingness and the Devil—yes, he denied God, the conservative, positive Absolute, and instead pledged allegiance to the devilish Anti-Absolute, and in his deadly pacifism marveled at how devout he was.†   (source)
  • Educated men, learned men even, are to be found among Nihilists; these go further, in that they are men of action.†   (source)
  • And he championed the innocence of lust—and Hans Castorp was reminded of that humanist's spare garret with its lectern and rush-bottom chairs and water carafe; whereas Naphta, after first claiming that lust could never be without guilt and that nature should, if you please, have a bad conscience in the presence of the Spirit, went on to refute the nihilism of the ascetic principle by defining the Church's policy of spiritual indulgence as "love"—and Hans Castorp found the word "love" sounded very odd coming from caustic, gaunt little Naphta.†   (source)
  • However, a week ago, I called in a medical student, Kislorodoff, who is a Nationalist, an Atheist, and a Nihilist, by conviction, and that is why I had him.†   (source)
  • Naphta was told to be silent on that account—first, because it was an outrage to humane feelings, and second, because he, Settembrini, had heard enough evasions and could see through the tricks of his opponent's apologetics to the thoroughly infamous and devilish cult of nihilism, which desired to be called Spirit and managed to perceive something legitimizing and sanctifying in the acknowledged unpopularity of the ascetic principle.†   (source)
  • They are Nihilists, are they not?†   (source)
  • A Nihilist!†   (source)
  • So that if our readers were to ask an explanation, not of the wild reports about the prince's Nihilistic opinions, but simply as to how such a marriage could possibly satisfy his real aspirations, or as to the spiritual condition of our hero at this time, we confess that we should have great difficulty in giving the required information.†   (source)
  • As a characteristic addition to the above, it was currently reported that the young prince really loved the lady to whom he was engaged, and had thrown her over out of purely Nihilistic motives, with the intention of giving himself the satisfaction of marrying a fallen woman in the face of all the world, thereby publishing his opinion that there is no distinction between virtuous and disreputable women, but that all women are alike, free; and a "fallen" woman, indeed, somewhat superior to a virtuous one.†   (source)
  • For instance, it was reported that the poor girl had so loved her future husband that she had followed him to the house of the other woman, the day after she had been thrown over; others said that he had insisted on her coming, himself, in order to shame and insult her by his taunts and Nihilistic confessions when she reached the house.†   (source)
  • Kislorodoff told me all this with a sort of exaggerated devil-may-care negligence, and as though he did me great honour by talking to me so, because it showed that he considered me the same sort of exalted Nihilistic being as himself, to whom death was a matter of no consequence whatever, either way.†   (source)
  • Why, in the English Parliament a Member got up last week and speaking about the Nihilists asked the Ministry whether it was not high time to intervene, to educate this barbarous people.†   (source)
  • But now we know that these little pills of classical learning possess the medicinal property of anti-nihilism, and we boldly prescribe them to our patients....But what if they had no such medicinal property?" he wound up humorously.†   (source)
  • 'And that is called nihilism?'†   (source)
  • With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists itself.†   (source)
  • He, like everyone, had heard that there were, especially in Petersburg, progressives of some sort, nihilists and so on, and, like many people, he exaggerated and distorted the significance of those words to an absurd degree.†   (source)
  • Then the doctor, a young man, not quite a Nihilist perhaps, but you know, eats with his knife...but a very good doctor.†   (source)
  • Nihilism has no point.†   (source)
  • "If it had not been for the distinctive property of anti-nihilistic influence on the side of classical studies, we should have considered the subject more, have weighed the arguments on both sides," said Sergey Ivanovitch with a subtle smile, "we should have given elbow-room to both tendencies.†   (source)
  • With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists itself.†   (source)
  • "But," said Sergey Ivanovitch, smiling subtly, and addressing Karenin, "One must allow that to weigh all the advantages and disadvantages of classical and scientific studies is a difficult task, and the question which form of education was to be preferred would not have been so quickly and conclusively decided if there had not been in favor of classical education, as you expressed it just now, its moral—disons le mot—anti-nihilist influence."†   (source)
  • 'He's a nihilist,' repeated Arkady.†   (source)
  • 'A nihilist,' said Nikolai Petrovitch.†   (source)
  • A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in.'†   (source)
  • He was not a nihilist for nothing!†   (source)
  • Nikolai Petrovitch was rather afraid of the young 'nihilist,' and was doubtful whether his influence over Arkady was for the good; but he was glad to listen to him, and was glad to be present at his scientific and chemical experiments.†   (source)
  • Much use in nihilists!'†   (source)
  • 'He's a nihilist.'†   (source)
  • Only on one occasion Pavel Petrovitch fell into a controversy with the nihilist on the subject of the question then much discussed of the rights of the nobles of the Baltic province; but suddenly he stopped of his own accord, remarking with chilly politeness, 'However, we cannot understand one another; I, at least, have not the honour of understanding you.'†   (source)
  • Nihilists believe that nothing has any meaning.†   (source)
  • "The young nihilists," Dad called us.†   (source)
  • I'm a nihilist.†   (source)
  • What are nihilists?†   (source)
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