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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?“

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Emil Cioran: Citáty anglicky

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

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Emil M. Cioran

Zdroj: Tears and Saints (1937)

“I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

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

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“To accomplish nothing and die of the strain”

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Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Varianta: To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.

“To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.”

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Zdroj: Drawn and Quartered

“A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society”

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“As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.”

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Zdroj: On the Heights of Despair

“How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.”

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Zdroj: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.”

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Tears and Saints (1937)

“For a long while I have lived with the notion that I was the most normal being that ever existed. This notion gave me the taste, even the passion for being unproductive: what was the use of being prized in a world inhabited by madmen, a world mired in mania and stupidity? For whom was one to bother, and to what end? It remains to be seen if I have quite freed myself from this certitude, salvation in the absolute, ruin in the immediate.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“We replace God as best we can; for every god is good, provided he perpetuates in eternity our desire for a crucial solitude....”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“It is unjust to call imaginary the diseases which are, on the contrary, only too real, since they proceed from our mind, the only regulator of our equilibrium and our health.”

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The New Gods (1969)

“Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Haven't people learned yet that the time of superficial intellectual games is over, that agony is infinitely more important than syllogism, that a cry of despair is more revealing than the most subtle thought, and that tears always have deeper roots than smiles?”

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On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Dead of night. No one, nothing but the society of the moments. Each pretends to keep us company, then escapes — desertion after desertion.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.”

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Zdroj: The Fall Into Time (1964), p. 178, first American edition (1970)

“The ideal being? An angel ravaged by humor.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“To found a family. I think it would have been easier for me to found an empire.”

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Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“A word, once dissected, no longer signifies anything, is nothing. Like a body that, after an autopsy, is less than a corpse.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“There is always someone above you: beyond God Himself rises Nothingness.”

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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Your suffering like your fate is without motive. To suffer, truly to suffer, is to accept the invasion of ills without the excuse of causality, as a favor of demented nature, as a negative miracle…”

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Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

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