Quotes by E. M. Cioran

E. M. Cioran

E. M. Cioran

French-Romanian philosopher

Lived from: 1911 - 1995

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagFrance

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  • Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
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  • Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
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  • Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
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  • The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
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  • 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.
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  • The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
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  • The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
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  • The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
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  • There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
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  • To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
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  • To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
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  • To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
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  • Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
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  • Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
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  • We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
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  • We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
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  • What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
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  • What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
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  • When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.
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  • A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
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