Quote #37

So long as man is protected by madness, he functions, and flourishes.

More from Emile Cioran

  1. We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
  2. The universal view melts things into a blur.
  3. Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
  4. Truths begin by a conflict with the police-and end by calling them in.
  5. We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade to the void.
  6. Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
  7. Philosophy: impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
  8. Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

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