Emil Cioran citáty

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„Keď absolútne viete, že nič nie je skutočné, nechápete, prečo by ste si mali vynakladať námahu na to, aby ste to dokazovali.“

„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?“

„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.“

„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?“

“Lord, give me the capacity of never praying, spare me the insanity of all worship, let this temptation of love pass from me which would deliver me forever unto You. Let the void spread between my heart and heaven! I have no desire to people my deserts by Your presence, to tyrannize my nights by Your light, to dissolve my Siberias beneath Your sun.”

“Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.”

“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.”

“Only what we have not accomplished and what we could not accomplish matters to us, so that what remains of a whole life is only what it will not have been.”

“At different degrees, everything is pathology, except for indifference.”

“Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.”

“All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression "metaphysical exile" had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.”

“What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?”

“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.”

“All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.”

“Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.”

“Out of the shadow of the abstract man, who thinks for the pleasure of thinking, emerges the organic man, who thinks because of a vital imbalance, and who is beyond science and art.”

“As soon as one returns to Doubt (if it could be said that one has ever left it), undertaking anything at all seems not so much useless as extravagant. Doubt works deep within you like a disease, or even more effectively, like a faith.”

“To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing”

“One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death's prisoner.”

“Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.”

“Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.”

“What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you — what a revelation.”

“Endless brooding over a question undermines you as much as a dull pain.”

“Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.”

“In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.”

“Irons and the unbreathable air of this world strip us of everything, except the freedom to kill ourselves; and this freedom grants us a strength and pride to triumph over the loads which overwhelm us.”

“The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even of nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.”

“To fear is to die every minute.”

“Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.”

“Pursued by our origins…we all are.”

“Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.”

“I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.”

“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.”