Quote

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

Emile M. Cioran

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emile M. Cioran
Cell
Cells
Billions
Firsts
First
Years
Heredity
Defy

More quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Image
We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Reality is a creation of our excesses.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
How easy it is to be deep: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Under each formula lies a corpse.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
Emile M. Cioran