Quote #39
Truths begin by a conflict with the police-and end by calling them in.
More from Emile Cioran
- The universal view melts things into a blur.
- Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
- So long as man is protected by madness, he functions, and flourishes.
- Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
- We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
- To Live signifies to believe and hope-to lie and to lie to oneself.
- Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
- We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.