Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
Emile M. Cioran quotes about
intuition firsts true-ones
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
being-yourself chaos chaos-in-the-world
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
rejection violence accepting
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
cynical democracy mediocrity
Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.
aliens indifference claims
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
disease reincarnation born
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
other-worlds nihilism patents
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
disease rage provoked
We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
tyrants ideas atheism
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.
spots ifs
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
humanity causes adore
Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.
genius talent discretion
Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.
boredom mind sap
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
madness appeals difficult
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.