Emil Cioran citáty page 11

„Na čo ešte čakáte, keď sa chcete vzdať?“

„Človek sa cíti byť naplnený až vtedy, keď prestane byť človekom.“

„Jediní zaujímaví filozofi sú tí, ktorí prestali myslieť a začali hľadať šťastie.“

„Hovorieval si, že musíme žiť, akoby sme nikdy nemali zomrieť. - Nevedel si, že tak žijú všetci, vrátane tých, ktorí sú posadnutí smrťou?“

„Smútok: apetít, ktorý nenasýti žiadne nešťastie.“

Emil Cioran Citáty o šťastí

„Nato, aby sme boli šťastní, museli by sme stále mať v duši obraz možných nešťastí, ktorým sme unikli.“

„V Európe sa šťastie končí vo Viedni. Za ňou je odjakživa kliatba na kliatbe.“

„Tým, že sa príroda podvolila ľuďom, spáchala atentát sama na seba.“

Emil Cioran citáty a výroky

„Knihy by sa mali písať len vtedy, ak chceme povedať veci, s ktorými sa neodvažujeme nikomu zdôveriť.“

„Raj bol neznesiteľný, ináč by sa bol prvý človek s ním uspokojil.“

„Dúfať znamená popierať budúcnosť.“

„Filozofická móda je dakedy podobná gastronomickej: niektorej myšlienke nemožno odolať tak ako dobrému jedlu.“

„Jediná služba, ktorú môžeme žiadať od druhých je, aby neuhádli, nakoľko sme úbohí.“

„Každá forma chvatu, aj smerom k dobrému, prezrádza určitú duševnú poruchu.“

„Najväčší strach mám z toho, že ma porozumejú.“

„S Bohom sa nezaoberáme beztrestne.“

„Skutočnosť, že žijem, dokazuje, že svet nemá žiadny zmysel.“

„Staroba je sebakritika prírody.“

„Ten, kto má strach pred smiešnosťou, nedotiahne to veľmi ďaleko, ani v dobrom, ani v zlom.“

„Všetci sme komedianti: prežijeme naše problémy.“

„Filozofia ponúka liek proti melanchólii. A mnohí stále veria v hĺbku filozofie!“

„Napokon, prečo by mali obyčajní ľudia chcieť uvažovať o konci, najmä keď vidíme, v akom stave sú tí, ktorí o ňom uvažujú?“

“I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions — only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.”

Emil Cioran: Citáty v angličtine

“Is it conceivable to adhere to a religion founded by someone else?”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“So long as man is protected by madness he functions and flourishes, but when he frees himself from the fruitful tyranny of fixed ideas, he is lost, ruined.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“The more you live, the less useful it seems to have lived.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“We suffer: the external world begins to exist...; we suffer to excess: it vanishes. Pain instigates the world only to unmask its unreality.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Whether or not there exists a solution to problems troubles only a minority; that the emotions have no outcome, lead to nothing, vanish into themselves — that is the great unconscious drama, the affective insolubility everyone suffers without even thinking about it.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“If I used to ask myself, over a coffin, "what good did it do the occupant to be born?" I now put the same question about anyone alive.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“To think is to run after insecurity, to be demoralized for grandiose trifles, to immure oneself in abstractions with a martyr's avidity, to hunt up complications the way others pursue collapse or gain. The thinker is by definition keen for torment.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Buddhism calls anger "corruption of the mind," Manicheism "root of the tree of death." I know this, but what good does it do me to know?”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“History shows that the thinkers who mounted on the top of the ladder of questions, who set their foot on the last rung, that of the absurd, have bequeathed to posterity only an example of sterility.”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“I'd rather offer my life as a sacrifice than be necessary to anything.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and aesthetic ideals? It's all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Erosion of our being by our infirmities: the resulting void is filled by the presence of consciousness, what am I saying?”

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“"What's wrong - what's the matter with you?" Nothing, nothing's the matter, I've merely taken a leap outside my fate, and now I don't know where to turn, what to run for…”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

that void is consciousness itself.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“I seem to myself, among civilised men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“In a single second we do away with all seconds; God himself could not do as much.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Life is not, and death is a dream. Suffering has invented them both as self-justification. Man alone is torn between an unreality and an illusion.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Always to have lived with the nostalgia to coincide with something, but not really knowing with what — it is easy to shift from unbelief to belief, or conversely. But what is there to convert to, and what is there to abjure, in a state of chronic lucidity?”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Scaffolds, dungeons, jails flourish only in the shadow of a faith — of that need to believe which has infested the mind forever. The devil pales beside the man who owns a truth, his truth. We are unfair to a Nero, a Tiberius: it was not they who invented the concept heretic: they were only degenerate dreamers who happened to be entertained by massacres. The real criminals are men who establish an orthodoxy on the religious or political level, men who distinguish between the faithful and the schismatic.”

The New Gods (1969)

“Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.”

On the Heights of Despair (1934)