Quote #17
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name- and moving on.
More from Emile Cioran
- In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
- Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of …
- I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a St. Paul.
- Under each formula lies a corpse.
- Society : an inferno of saviors.
- Life inspires more dread than death-it is life which is the great unknown.
- If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship, and devotion would be forever erased from the dictionaries; …
- We change ideas like neckties.