Emil Cioran Quotes

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

Emil Cioran

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• The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Plant
  • Celebration

• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Rain

• Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Time
  • Health
  • Animal

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Friends
  • Animal
  • Same

• My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Animal
  • Bear

• Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Fight

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Fashion
  • Period
  • Animal

• What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Why

• Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Virtues
  • Himself
  • Cardinal

• If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • God
  • Live
  • Society

• Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Live
  • America

• Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • True
  • Man
  • Religious

• 'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Children
  • Animal
  • Old

• The first reactions from Germany and German industry was quite negative. People right from the start were saying that we will steal technology and take it away and move the plant to India and use low cheap labor to compete.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • People
  • Technology
  • Start

• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Soul
  • Growing
  • Teacher

• I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Animal
  • Create
  • Meat

• There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Football
  • Ignore

• My job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing. When I was doing the Chet Baker movie I was obsessed with playing the trumpet, and to my absolute shock I haven't picked the trumpet up since we wrapped. It was so much work. I thought I was going to keep playing the rest of my life, 'cause it was fun, it's just a lot of work. And it's a really unique job that exposes you to a lot.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Fun

• The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

  

  Nyla Ali Khan
  • Politics
  • West
  • Rhetoric

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Help
  • Never
  • Things

• Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Animal
  • Plant