“Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.” Quote by Emile M. Cioran
“Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.” UniverseLeftPayRegretIndifferenceDamageSooner Or LaterStagnation Author:Emile M. Cioran
“Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.” MenExerciseGuaranteesTragicParadoxMediocreDuration Author:Emile M. Cioran
“The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.” SpiritualLeaderLimitsConcernedIntenseAppetiteSpiritual Leader Author:Emile M. Cioran
“To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.” WorldLanguageBlow Author:Emile M. Cioran
“To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.” HatredOneselfChainsVengeancePardonTainted Author:Emile M. Cioran
“Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.” FacesLostAppealsManiacsProcreation Author:Emile M. Cioran
“Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.” SelfWould BeExistenceDisgustingDoomedScrutinyThankless Author:Emile M. Cioran
“Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.” HumansFallFireCome UpRevoltPerplexityUbiquity Author:Emile M. Cioran
“We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.” Incomplete Author:Emile M. Cioran
“To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.” ThinkingInstinctRevengeCunningCamouflageBaseness Author:Emile M. Cioran