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?“

“One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.”

“No one has the audacity to exclaim: “I don’t want to do anything!” —we are more indulgent with a murderer than with a mind emancipated from actions.”

“Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.”

“Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”

“The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave's virtue.”

“If someone incessantly drops the word "life," you know he's a sick man.”

“Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.”

“Two enemies — the same man divided.”

“What anxiety when one is not sure of one's doubts or wonders: are these actually doubts?”

“An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.”

“I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.”

“Hope is the normal form of delirium.”

“Thanks to depression — that alpinism of the indolent — we scale every summit and daydream over every precipice from our bed.”

“Only thoughts that are randomly born die. The other thoughts we carry with us without knowing them. They have abandoned themselves to forgetfulness so that they can be with us all the time.”

“Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.”

“I anticipated witnessing in my lifetime the disappearance of our species. But the Gods have been against me.”

“In relation to any act of life, the mind acts as a killjoy.”

“"Where do you get those superior airs of yours?" "I've managed to survive, you see, all those nights when I wondered: am I going to kill myself at dawn?"”

“Where are my sensations? They have melted into… me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?”

“The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?”

“My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly the contrary of a mission.”

“Life is too full of death for death to be able to add anything to it.”

“Opinions, yes; convictions, no. That is the point of departure for an intellectual pride.”

“The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it.”

“Nothing is indefensible — from the absurdest proposition to the most monstrous crime.”

“Consciousness is nature's nightmare.”

“A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.”

“What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?”

“Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.”