“The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.”
Source: A short history of decay
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Famous Emile M. Cioran Quotes
“A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.”
“The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.”
“Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.”
Source: A short history of decay
“A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.”
Source: A short history of decay
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“We change ideas like neckties.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms