Tolerance cannot seduce the young. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness. Emile M. Cioran utopia madness world A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea. Emile M. Cioran fallen lows ideas Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. Emile M. Cioran conflict police calling Man is a robot with defects. Emile M. Cioran defects robots men Existing is plagiarism. Emile M. Cioran plagiarism A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. Emile M. Cioran gates enemy Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. Emile M. Cioran speech silence mouths My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission. Emile M. Cioran positive-atheism missions atheism "The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. Emile M. Cioran holy atheism ghost Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. Emile M. Cioran torture paradise insomnia True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer. Emile M. Cioran inward communication prayer A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. Emile M. Cioran golden-rule incomplete golden I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. Emile M. Cioran nationality intellectual Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. Emile M. Cioran rebel slave arms The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. Emile M. Cioran vulgar quests deceived The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release. Emile M. Cioran release phenomenon disaster No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief Emile M. Cioran martyr dangerous belief There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom. Emile M. Cioran one-thing boredom An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there. Emile M. Cioran hurling individual risk We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job. Emile M. Cioran consent regard jobs
