orpheus last chant

Here are some quotes from a philosopher not many of you would know about. I did not select the best, only what was short enough and translatable by me, but still I hope you will enjoy them. i would love that others would contribute with other small quotes from less known sources. (below is a small inof about the writer)

In theologans we find subtlety. Unable to demonstrate what they claim, they are forced to use a lot of side issues, until the spirit is tired, which is what they want. How much skill does it require to clasify angels into dozens of species! Let us not insist in the subject of God, his "infinity" has weakenned many minds.

Not God but Pain enjoys the advantages of omnipreseance.

"God, without you I am crazy, with you even more crazier!" - this would be, at best, the result of the reesablishment of contact between the loser below with the loser upstairs.

For 2000 years jesus is giving his revenge on us, for not dieing on a couch.

Any belief brings along audacity, freshly adhered, it stimulates bad instincts, those who do not share it look like losers, powerless, requiring only pity and despise.

If we did not have the power to exagerate our sufering, we would be unable to indure them. giving them unusual sizes, we measure ouselves as top rank martyrs, a sort of chosen ones vice-versa, stimulated by trouble.

Abiss of agonies, I died so many times that is seems indecent of me to abuse a corpse out of which i can get nothing more.

From the moment we think we understand everything , we get the look of a killer.

A religious nature is defined less by it's certainties, but for it's need to prolong it's sufering after death.

A guy, half crazy, told me once: "when i shave , who, but god, stops me from slitting my neck?"
Faith is, ergo, the work of the survival instinct. Everywhere we go, we keep running into biology.

Without bach, theology would have no point(....) If there is sombody on this world that ows everything to bach, that is god.

If noah had the gift of seeing into the future, we would have sunk his ship with his own hand.

Skepticism unveils his good consequences too late, on our faces torn by certainties. on our hienna face with ideals.

i believe in the redemption of the humans, in the future of cianide.


( his name is Emil Cioran. he was born in romania and lived most of his life in exile in france (because of the communist regime). this book from where these quotes come from was written in 1952. ) . if you like 'em ask for more.