Yannis Stavrou, Port, oil on canvas
One of the great philosophers of our time...
Although he is not a systematic one...
Philosopher & poet...
Emil Cioran
Aphorisms
- A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
- A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
- A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
- A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
- A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
- A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
- Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
- Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
- Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
- By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
- Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.
- Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
- Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
- Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
- Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
- Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
- Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
- Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
- For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
- Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
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