Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.
Emile M. Cioran
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Emile M. Cioran
Salvation
Diminishes
Plant
Compromises
Consciousness
Supremacy
Animal
Insects
Whatever
Diminish
Better
Kingdom
Men
Kingdoms
Compromise
Insect
More quotes by Emile M. Cioran
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.
Emile M. Cioran
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emile M. Cioran
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
Emile M. Cioran
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
Emile M. Cioran
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
Emile M. Cioran
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
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Emile M. Cioran
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
Emile M. Cioran
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
Emile M. Cioran
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.
Emile M. Cioran
Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.
Emile M. Cioran
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
Emile M. Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Emile M. Cioran
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
Emile M. Cioran
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
Emile M. Cioran
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
Emile M. Cioran
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emile M. Cioran
Pursued by our origins... we all are.
Emile M. Cioran
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Emile M. Cioran
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.
Emile M. Cioran