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Emil Cioran

Romanian Philosopher

Born: Apr 8, 1911

Died: Jun 20, 1995

Life Man Nothing Our Ourselves You

Related authors: Albert Camus Aristotle Confucius Friedrich Nietzsche Lao Tzu Plato Socrates Sun Tzu

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. Emil Cioran

Words Proportion Around Die Us Fling

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter. Emil Cioran

Others Name Always Anyone Speaks Who

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. Emil Cioran

World Nothing Evidence

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. Emil Cioran

Anxiety Philosophy Impersonal Ideas Refuge Among

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. Emil Cioran

Conflict Police Calling End Begin Truths Them

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. Emil Cioran

Intelligence Only Ages Belief Flourishes

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. Emil Cioran

Hope Lie Live Believe Oneself

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. Emil Cioran

We Cannot Ourselves Delight Delivered Cannot

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

Future Time Man Matter Half Does Infatuated Eternity Who

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling. Emil Cioran

Freedom Enjoy Trembling No-One Without

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. Emil Cioran

People Obsessions Ideas Represents Much Aggregate Theories

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

Democracy Paradise Nation Nothing Once Marvel Offer Tomb

One hardly saves a world without ruling it. Emil Cioran

World Saves Ruling Without Hardly

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. Emil Cioran

You Pride Nothing Revelation Discover Belongs

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously? Emil Cioran

Seriously Accident Take Simply Why

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. Emil Cioran

God Nowadays No-One Because Cured Disease Dies Imagine

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. Emil Cioran

Men Torment Some Some Men Accomplishment Appetite Need

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. Emil Cioran

Needs Freedom Overcome Mind Negative Long First Negation Our Once Ourselves Only Habit Exert Fruitful Acquired Us Adapt

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. Emil Cioran

Despair Habit Exist Acquiring

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. Emil Cioran

Revenge Victim Sweet Our Once Feel Always Inferior

Everything is pathology, except for indifference. Emil Cioran

Everything Indifference Except Pathology

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. Emil Cioran

Time Echo Itself Apart Us Tearing Ennui

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. Emil Cioran

Immediately Diminution Make Concession Accompanied Which Each Conscious Inner

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. Emil Cioran

Scorned Fame Than Forgotten Want Dying Prefer

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