Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
pursued
Pursued by our origins…we all are.
philosophical love-is rivals
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
suicide world melancholy
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?
order tyrants stuff
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
ruins irritated appetite
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
giving despair void
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
vitality madness stores
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
delight devouring
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
incomplete
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
synthesis woe poison
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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.
hatred vengeance pardon
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
blow world language
To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
spiritual leader limits
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.