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Emile M. Cioran Quotes
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Type: Philosopher Quotes Category: French Philosopher Quotes Date of Birth: April 8, 1911 Year of Death: 1995 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Emile M. Cioran Related Authors: Blaise Pascal Albert Camus Michel de Montaigne Simone Weil Jean de la Bruyere Jean-Paul Sartre Charles de Secondat |
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Emile M. Cioran A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. Emile M. Cioran A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. Emile M. Cioran A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and it's tomb. Emile M. Cioran A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. Emile M. Cioran A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. Emile M. Cioran Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. Emile M. Cioran Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. Emile M. Cioran Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter. Emile M. Cioran By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. Emile M. Cioran Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself. Emile M. Cioran Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. Emile M. Cioran Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. Emile M. Cioran Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Emile M. Cioran Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. Emile M. Cioran Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. Emile M. Cioran Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. Emile M. Cioran Everything is pathology, except for indifference. Emile M. Cioran For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. Emile M. Cioran Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? Emile M. Cioran God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. Emile M. Cioran Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. Emile M. Cioran I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. Emile M. Cioran I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. Emile M. Cioran I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously? Emile M. Cioran If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. Emile M. Cioran If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. Emile M. Cioran Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. Emile M. Cioran Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. Emile M. Cioran In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. Emile M. Cioran In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. Emile M. Cioran In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. Emile M. Cioran Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. Emile M. Cioran Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? Emile M. Cioran It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other. Emile M. Cioran It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. Emile M. Cioran Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. Emile M. Cioran Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. Emile M. Cioran Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. Emile M. Cioran Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. Emile M. Cioran Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. Emile M. Cioran Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. Emile M. Cioran Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. Emile M. Cioran Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. Emile M. Cioran No one can enjoy freedom without trembling. Emile M. Cioran No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. Emile M. Cioran Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. Emile M. Cioran Nothing proves that we are more than nothing. Emile M. Cioran One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. Emile M. Cioran One hardly saves a world without ruling it. Emile M. Cioran Our first intuitions are the true ones. Emile M. Cioran Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. Emile M. Cioran Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. Emile M. Cioran Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. Emile M. Cioran Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. Emile M. Cioran Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness. Emile M. Cioran Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. Emile M. Cioran Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. Emile M. Cioran Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. Emile M. Cioran So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. Emile M. Cioran Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it. Emile M. Cioran Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. Emile M. Cioran Sperm is a bandit in its pure state. Emile M. Cioran The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. Emile M. Cioran The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. Emile M. Cioran The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. Emile M. Cioran The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. Emile M. Cioran The limit of every pain is an even greater pain. Emile M. Cioran The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. Emile M. Cioran The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. Emile M. Cioran The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. Emile M. Cioran The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary. Emile M. Cioran The Universal view melts things into a blur. Emile M. Cioran There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. Emile M. Cioran To act is to anchor in the imminent future. Emile M. Cioran To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. Emile M. Cioran To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. Emile M. Cioran To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. Emile M. Cioran To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. Emile M. Cioran Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. Emile M. Cioran Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. Emile M. Cioran Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. Emile M. Cioran Under each formula lies a corpse. Emile M. Cioran We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. Emile M. Cioran We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. Emile M. Cioran We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. Emile M. Cioran We derive our vitality from our store of madness. Emile M. Cioran We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. Emile M. Cioran We inhabit a language rather than a country. Emile M. Cioran We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us. Emile M. Cioran We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. Emile M. Cioran We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. Emile M. Cioran What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? Emile M. Cioran What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. Emile M. Cioran What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. Emile M. Cioran What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? Emile M. Cioran When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. Emile M. Cioran Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. Emile M. Cioran Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. Emile M. Cioran Word - that invisible dagger. Emile M. Cioran Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. Emile M. Cioran You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life. 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