Emil Cioran Quotes

Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!

Emil Cioran

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• Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Want
  • Party
  • Care

• I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Instrument

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Past
  • Gods

• It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Work
  • God
  • Light

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Believe
  • Family
  • May

• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Way
  • End
  • Bubbles

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Love
  • Like
  • Questions

• The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Great
  • Best
  • Baby

• The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Kind
  • Matter
  • Strange

• Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• I'm a huge poster collector.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Huge
  • Collector
  • Poster

• As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Pretty
  • Joy
  • Woman

• From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Unknown

• My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Style

• The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

  

  Lucinda Franks
  • Mind
  • Simple

• ...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Hope
  • Stop
  • Months

• If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Believe
  • Beginning

• Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Believe