Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
too-much events said
Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
abuse philosopher pity
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!
cutting martyr havens
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
law tyrants republic
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
intelligence age belief
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
drama vegetables humans
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
goal willing
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
mind erode empires
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
abuse liberty possession
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
endure imposter
It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other
source source-of-life subjective
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
illusion
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
law void belief
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.
glory
Glory — once achieved, what is it worth?