Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suffering, Belief, Appetite

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

• The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hero, Fighting, Destiny

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

• Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Passion, Reality, Men

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

• Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Law, Void, Belief

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

• I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Saws, Belief

• No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

  Emile M. Cioran

  Belief, Martyr, Dangerous

• Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Intelligence, Age, Belief

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

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