Emil Cioran Quotes

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

Emil Cioran

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• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Movie

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Done
  • Stop

• There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Politics
  • Radio
  • Getting

• My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Death
  • Brother

• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Experience
  • House
  • Man

• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Political
  • Community

• A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Men
  • Gentleman
  • Wolf

• Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Family
  • Parents

• We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Interest

• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Attention

• Every casting director I've met is a woman.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Woman
  • Director
  • Casting

• Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Think
  • Years

• What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • History
  • Fear

• One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Friends
  • History
  • Problems

• I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • People
  • Family
  • School

• With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other-the United States and Soviet Russia. The laws of both history and geography will compel these two Powers to a trial of strength, either military or in the fields of economics and ideology. (2nd April 1945)

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • History
  • Ideology
  • Geography

• I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Family
  • Know
  • West

• Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • History
  • Absolutes
  • Degradation