Emil Cioran citáty

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„Filozofie nabízí protilátku proti melancholii. A mnozí stále věří v hloubku filozofie!“

„Když víte, že nic není skutečné, nechápete, proč byste se měli namáhat s dokazováním.“

„Největší událostí druhé poloviny 20. století je zanikání chodníků.“

„Ani všichni filozofové světa spolu nemají takovou hodnotu jako jeden světec.“

„Člověk se naplní teprve tehdy, když přestane být člověkem.“

„Koneckonců, proč by obyčejní lidé měli chtít uvažovat o konci, zvláště když vidíme, v jakém stavu jsou ti, kteří o něm uvažují?“

„Říkával jsi, že musíme žít, jako bychom nikdy neměli zemřít. Copak nevíš, že tak žijí všichni, včetně těch, kteří jsou posedlí smrtí?“

„Na co čekáte, abyste to vzdali?“

“Lord, give me the capacity of never praying, spare me the insanity of all worship, let this temptation of love pass from me which would deliver me forever unto You. Let the void spread between my heart and heaven! I have no desire to people my deserts by Your presence, to tyrannize my nights by Your light, to dissolve my Siberias beneath Your sun.”

“Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.”

“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.”

“Only what we have not accomplished and what we could not accomplish matters to us, so that what remains of a whole life is only what it will not have been.”

“At different degrees, everything is pathology, except for indifference.”

“Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.”

“All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression "metaphysical exile" had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.”

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

“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.”

“All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.”

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

“Out of the shadow of the abstract man, who thinks for the pleasure of thinking, emerges the organic man, who thinks because of a vital imbalance, and who is beyond science and art.”

“As soon as one returns to Doubt (if it could be said that one has ever left it), undertaking anything at all seems not so much useless as extravagant. Doubt works deep within you like a disease, or even more effectively, like a faith.”

“To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing”

“One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death's prisoner.”

“Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.”

“Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.”

“What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you — what a revelation.”

“Endless brooding over a question undermines you as much as a dull pain.”

“Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.”

“In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.”

“Irons and the unbreathable air of this world strip us of everything, except the freedom to kill ourselves; and this freedom grants us a strength and pride to triumph over the loads which overwhelm us.”

“The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even of nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.”

“To fear is to die every minute.”

“Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.”

“Pursued by our origins…we all are.”

“Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.”

“I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.”

“Born in a prison, with burdens on our shoulders and our thoughts, we could not reach the end of a single day if the possibilities of ending it all did not incite us to begin the next day all over again.”