Emil Cioran Quotes

The only profound thinkers are the ones who do not suffer from a sense of the ridiculous.

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• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Energy
  • Civilization
  • Skill

• Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Writing
  • Independent
  • Speaking

• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Journal

• When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• Saving a life overrides territories.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • Life
  • Saving
  • Territories

• Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Religious
  • Spiritual
  • Human

• I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Believe
  • School
  • Happy

• I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Past

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Work
  • Why
  • Job

• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Man

• I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • America
  • Best

• Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Done
  • Risk
  • Blame

• We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Art
  • Purpose
  • Performance

• I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Women
  • Single
  • Images

• There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Moon

• The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?

  

  Javier Camara
  • Real
  • Why
  • American

• I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Money

• The only profound thinkers are the ones who do not suffer from a sense of the ridiculous.

  

  Emil Cioran
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