Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
speaks
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
fear history result ultimately
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
freedom merely
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
knowing reason ifs
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.
regret pay damage
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.
exercise men duration
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
spiritual leader limits
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
blow world language
To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
hatred vengeance pardon
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
freedom long rejection
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.
synthesis woe poison
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.