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Ideas Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
- A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
- 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…
- I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right…
- Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.…
- The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further…
- Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.
- We change ideas like neckties.
- Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
- The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.
More Ideas Quotes
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- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe