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Against Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
- The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with…
- Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
- Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
- Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times…
- Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
- To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself…
- To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the…
- I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I…
- Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.
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