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?“

“When we know what words are worth, the amazing thing is that we try to say anything at all, and that we manage to do so. This requires, it is true, a supernatural nerve.”

“To dream of an enterprise of demolition that would spare none of the traces of the original Big Bang.”

“Not content with real sufferings, the anxious man imposes imaginary ones on himself; he is a being for whom unreality exists, must exist; otherwise where would he obtain the ration of torment his nature demands?”

“The flesh spreads, further and further, like a gangrene upon the surface of the globe. It cannot impose limits upon itself, it continues to be rife despite its rebuffs, it takes its defeats for conquests, it has never learned anything. It belongs above all to the realm of the Creator, and it is indeed in the flesh that He has projected His maleficent instincts.”

“…all of the philosophers put together are not worth a single saint.”

“Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.”

“To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.”

“If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.”

“To act is to anchor in the imminent future.”

“My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.”

“We define only out of despair, we must have a formula… to give a facade to the void.”

“The more you are a victim of contradictory impulses, the less you know which to yield to. To lack character - precisely that and nothing more.”

“Sadness makes you God's prisoner.”

“Without God, everything is nothingness; and with God? Supreme nothingness.”

“Get hold of yourself, be confident once more, don't forget that it is not given to just anyone to have idolized discouragement without succumbing to it.”

“A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.”

“There are questions which, once approached, either isolate you or kill you outright.”

“The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity…”

“Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.”

“There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.”

“I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.”

“A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime…”

“When I happen to be satisfied with everything, even God and myself, I immediately react like the man who, on a brilliant day, torments himself because the sun is bound to explode in a few billion years.”

“I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.”

“The sphere of consciousness shrinks in action; no one who acts can lay claim to the universal, for to act is to cling to the properties of being at the expense of being itself, to form a reality to reality's detriment.”

“You have dreamed of setting the world ablaze, and you have not even managed to communicate your fire to words, to light up a single one!”

“Even more than in a poem, it is the aphorism that the word is god.”

“By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.”

“The moment we believe we've understood everything grants us the look of a murderer.”