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Nihilism   /nˈaɪəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
noun
Nihilism  n.  
1.
Nothingness; nihility.
2.
The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.
3.
(Politics) The theories and practices of the Nihilists.





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"Nihilism" Quotes from Famous Books



... lamented the absence from society of a machinery for facilitating the descent of incapacity. "Administrative Nihilism." Collected ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... speculation of the eighteenth century appeared the storm and stress of romanticism and sentimentalism. The extremes of morbid personal emotion were thought serviceable for daily life, while the middle course of applying ideals to experience was utterly abandoned. The latest nihilism differs little from the conception of the perfect regeneration of mankind by discarding the old merely because it was old which triumphed in the latter half of the eighteenth century among philosophers and wits. To be sure, ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane


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