Emil Cioran citáty page 15

„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?“

“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?”

Emil Cioran: Citáty v angličtine

“Word — that invisible dagger.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Late at night. I feel like falling into a frenzy, doing some unprecedented thing to release myself, but I don't see against whom, against what…”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Since the only things we remember are humiliations and defeats, what is the use of all the rest?”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“One hardly saves a world without ruling it.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“We are all of us in error, the humorists excepted. They alone have discerned, as though in jest, the inanity of all that is serious and even of all that is frivolous.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“To have failed in everything, always, out of a love of discouragement.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Death poses a problem which replaces all the others. What is deadly to philosophy, to the naive belief in the hierarchy of perplexities.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“To conceive a thought — just one, but one that would tear the universe to pieces.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...”

The New Gods (1969)

“One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy of meditation.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow men', the question which comes to mind is invariably the same: how does he keep from killing himself?”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing — between two fictions.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Without its assiduity to the ridiculous, would the human race have lasted more than a single generation?”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“The need to devour oneself absolves one of the need to believe.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)