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Emil Cioran byl rumunsko-francouzský filozof.

✵ 8. duben 1911 – 20. červen 1995
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Emil Cioran: 540 citátů5 lajků

Emil Cioran nejznámější citáty

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

Emil Cioran

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

Emil Cioran

Zdroj: [Procházka, Milan, Podvratný dobrodruh Duteurtre, novinky.cz, 2004-01-09, 2011-03-02, http://www.novinky.cz/kultura/23153-podvratny-dobrodruh-duteurtre.html]

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

Emil Cioran

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

Emil Cioran

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

Emil Cioran

„Na co čekáte, abyste to vzdali?“

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran: Citáty anglicky

“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.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a god the consequences are incalculable. We kill only in the name of a god or of his counterfeits: the excesses provoked by the goddess Reason, by the concept of nation, class, or race are akin to those of the Inquisition or of the Reformation.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“"What is truth?" is a fundamental question. But what is it compared to "How to endure life?" And even this one pales beside the next: "How to endure oneself?" - That is the crucial question in which no one is in a position to give us an answer.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Once we reject lyricism, to blacken a page becomes an ordeal: what's the use of writing in order to say exactly what we had to say?”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“For two thousand years, Jesus has revenged himself on us for not having died on a sofa.”

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All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“You are forgiven everything provided you have a trade, a subtitle to your name, a seal on your nothingness.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Say what we will, death is the best thing nature has found to please everyone. With each of us, everything vanishes, everything stops forever. What an advantage, what an abuse! Without the least effort on our part, we own the universe, we drag it into our own disappearance. No doubt about it, dying is immoral…”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass — which is better than trying to fill them.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Glory — once achieved, what is it worth?”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Nothing deserves to be undone, doubtless because nothing deserved to be done.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“We make choices, decisions, as long as we keep to the surface of things; once we reach the depths, we can neither choose nor decide, we can do nothing but regret the surface…”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Creation is in fact a fault, man's famous sin thereby appearing as a minor version of a much graver one. What are we guilty of, except of having followed, more or less slavishly, the Creator's example? Easy to recognize in ourselves the fatality which was His: not for nothing have we issued from the hands of a wicked and woebegone god, a god accursed.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“To think is to submit to the whims and commands of an uncertain health.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their life a meaning.”

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The Temptation to Exist (1956)

“Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“What place do we occupy in the "universe"? A point, if that! Why reproach ourselves when we are evidently so insignificant? Once we make this observation, we grow calm at once: henceforth, no more bother, no more frenzy, metaphysical or otherwise. And then that point dilates, swells, substitutes itself for space. And everything begins all over again.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“The reasons for persisting in Being seem less and less well founded, and our successors will find it easier than we to be rid of such obstinacy.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Tolerance — the function of an extinguished ardor — tolerance cannot seduce the young.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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