Quote #36
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
More from Emile Cioran
- Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
- So long as man is protected by madness, he functions, and flourishes.
- We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade to the void.
- The universal view melts things into a blur.
- Philosophy: impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
- Truths begin by a conflict with the police-and end by calling them in.
- By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
- Everything is pathology, except for indifference.