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Others Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
- If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
- We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
- Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.
- The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
- On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
- Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is…
- 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 live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
- Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who…
- Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to…
- It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain…
- How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the…
- Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
More Others Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen