Remy de Gourmont Quotes

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

The absurd is sin without God.

To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

Nothingness is the basis of everything.

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

An atheist is someone who thinks (but doesn't believe) that nothing created everything.

God is dead!

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Find out who Sartre is.

I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.

Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.