The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say:… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
