51 Quotations by Emile M. Cioran
- 21. Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ours ...
- 22. Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no ...
- 23. No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are ...
- 24. No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
- 25. Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil. It is a great force, and a great ...
- 26. One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and n ...
- 27. One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
- 28. Reality is a creation of our excesses.
- 29. Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
- 30. Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
- 31. Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
- 32. That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to a ...
- 33. The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
- 34. The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to ot ...
- 35. The Universal view melts things into a blur.
- 36. The west - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these b ...
- 37. To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As s ...
- 38. To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camoflage our baseness and conceal our lower insti ...
- 39. Truths begin by a conflict with the police- and end by calling them in.
- 40. Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in ...
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