Emile M. Cioran — Philosophical Quotes

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Emile M. Cioran Quotes

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Emile M. Cioran

Philosopher, Essayist

Philosophical

“Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.”

Life Is Geometry Epilepsy

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Emile M. Cioran

Philosopher, Essayist

Philosophical

“No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.”

Suffering Belief Appetite

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Philosophical

“Under each formula lies a corpse.”

Lying Formulas

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Philosophical

“Society: an inferno of saviors!”

Savior Inferno

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Philosophical

“A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.”

God Civilization Destroyed

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Philosophical

“We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.”

Alive Normal

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Philosophical

“Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.”

Men Needs

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Philosophical

“If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.”

Mean Saint Long Ago

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Philosophical

“This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.”

Suffering Forever Unique

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Philosophical

“What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?”

Men Doe Time

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Philosophical

“A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.”

Democracy Paradise Offers

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Philosophical

“I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.”

People Thinking Believe

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