51 Quotations by Emile M. Cioran
- 1. A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more effic ...
- 2. A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and it's tomb.
- 3. A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals h ...
- 4. Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
- 5. Balkans - that taste for devastation, for internal clutter, for a universe like a brothel on fire th ...
- 6. Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salv ...
- 7. Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
- 8. Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, ...
- 9. Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference an ...
- 10. Each time you find yourself at a turning point, the best thing is to lie down and let hours pass. Re ...
- 11. Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
- 12. Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the ...
- 13. I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a St. Paul.
- 14. I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged in ...
- 15. If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don ...
- 16. Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and inven ...
- 17. In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
- 18. In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
- 19. In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
- 20. Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
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