Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think. Emile M. Cioran philosophy believe thinking We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. Emile M. Cioran void despair giving 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 in its fight against depression. Emile M. Cioran vitality fighting depression Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again. Emile M. Cioran doing-nothing encounters solitude Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught. Emile M. Cioran spirituality taught ideas Under each formula lies a corpse. Emile M. Cioran corpses formulas lying Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. Emile M. Cioran appetite power suffering The limit of every pain is an even greater pain. Emile M. Cioran pessimistic pain limits A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous. Emile M. Cioran design causes book Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. Emile M. Cioran appetite men needs Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. Emile M. Cioran woe poison synthesis Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. Emile M. Cioran function mind inspirational Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it. Emile M. Cioran melancholy universe Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Emile M. Cioran misconception critics criticism Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic. Emile M. Cioran psychotic differences thinking The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief. Emile M. Cioran destiny fighting hero He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. Emile M. Cioran humans vegetables drama 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 pain sweet death That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit. Emile M. Cioran willing goal The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men. Emile M. Cioran grudge men ideas
