Emil Cioran Quotes

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Emil Cioran

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• We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Small
  • Purpose
  • Door

• I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Music
  • Different
  • Think

• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Leisure

• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • Home
  • Strong

• Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Understanding
  • Opinion
  • Chemistry

• Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Power
  • Innocence
  • Convinced

• But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Peace
  • Independence
  • Africa

• I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Man
  • Best
  • Research

• I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

  

  Larry David
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Now

• Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Time
  • Blonde
  • Every Time

• The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Science
  • Health
  • Morality

• The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • World
  • God
  • True

• If you take as your pattern the wings of feathered birds, these are more powerful in structure of bone and sinew because they are penetrable, that is to say the feathers are separated from one another and the air passes through them. But the bat is aided by its membrane, which binds the whole together and is not penetrated by the air.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Together
  • Powerful
  • Air

• Does mud care which cloak it bespatters?

  

  Andre Norton

• There have been moments when I also wasn’t able to attach as much importance to football as it seemed to me I should.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Moments
  • Football

• Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the best way to understand it was to get close to it on the ground level.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Up
  • Growing
  • College

• Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I love cold, rainy weather.

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Cold
  • Weather
  • Rainy

• Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

  

  Friedrich Engels
  • World

• The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women

• I hate digital calendars, so I use pen and paper or the palm of my hand for my daily schedule. I get much more satisfaction out of physically crossing things out than deleting.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Hate
  • Hand
  • Daily

• Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • People
  • Communication
  • Message

• Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

  

  Emil Cioran