Maxioms by E. M. Cioran
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to read more
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.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the read more
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
