Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anyone #name #others #speaks #who

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. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#crime #fear #full #glory #inspires

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#concession #conscious #diminution #each #immediately

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#every #sensation #thought #thwarted

Everything is pathology, except for indifference. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#except #indifference #pathology

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#madmen #makes #potential

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#glory #once #worth

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

Our first intuitions are the true ones. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#intuitions #ones #our #true