Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
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.
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.
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.
inferno savior
Society: an inferno of saviors!
delirium-tremens delirium undone
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
conviction ifs
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
source source-of-life subjective
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.