Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Crazy, Air, Sweat

• My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Atheism, Missions, Positive Atheism

• "The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Atheism, Ghost, Holy

• God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

  Emile M. Cioran

  God, Atheism, Disease

  "The Trouble with Being Born". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1973.

• The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tyrants, Ideas, Atheism

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

• Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Believe, Men

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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