Quote #19
Under each formula lies a corpse.
More from Emile Cioran
- Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of …
- Life inspires more dread than death-it is life which is the great unknown.
- What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name- and moving on.
- We change ideas like neckties.
- In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
- Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
- I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a St. Paul.
- Reality is a creation of our excesses.