nirvanist

Updated: June 4, 2025

As in all men of his type, our manifold nature was so marked in him that he was like several different men rolled into one. When he had exhausted himself in the character of the most pugnacious, aggressive, and sanguine of reformers, he rested himself as a Pessimist and Nirvanist.

Bernard Shaw - The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring