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Good health is the best weapon...

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

If truth were not boring, scie...

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.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

Death makes no sense except to...

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

I was walking late one night a...

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

Not one moment when I have not...

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

Espousing the melancholy of an...

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

Only superficial minds approac...

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

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I would like to explode, flow,...

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

Doubt works deep within you li...

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

I am the beast with a contorte...

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

What music appeals to in us it...

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

Self-conscious rejection of th...

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

Hungarian Language Ђ' savage i...

Hungarian Language Ђ' savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura words of nectar and cyanide.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

We dread the future only when ...

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

To act is to anchor in the imm...

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

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All great ideas should be foll...

All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

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Skepticism is the elegance of ...

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

Nothing sweeter than to drag o...

Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and

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We have convictions only if we...

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

Emil Cioran 493 quotes

Democracy: a festival of medio...

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

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