Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
Emil M. CioranIf truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
Emil M. CioranThe Romans were not wiped out by the invasions of the barbarians, nor by the Christian virus, but by a more subtle evil, boredom.
Emil M. CioranPhilosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
Emil M. CioranHeroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.
Emil M. CioranA harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.
Emil M. CioranTell me how you want to die, and I’ll tell you who you are.
Emil M. CioranReligion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.
Emil M. CioranAll that is Life in me urges me to give up God.
Emil M. CioranDeath makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
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