~Procreation)
And other quotes
by
E.M. Cioran (b. 1911), Romanian–born French philosopher. "Aux Sources du Vide," Syllogismes de L'Amertune (1952).
"Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist--a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist--only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression."
~96 pessimism 96
"When you have understood that nothing is that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever."
~9 salvation 6
"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."
~99 suicide 99
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live--moreover, the only one.
meaning
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"History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable."
history
"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."
martyrs and martyrdom
"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."
fanatics
"Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history."
decay
"Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out."
hate
Emil M. Cioran (Romanian: [eˈmil t͡ʃjoˈran]; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French.
Cioran was born in Rășinari, Sibiu County, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. His father, Emilian Cioran, was an orthodox priest.
Future Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica and future Romanian thinker Petre Țuțea, became his closest colleagues for they all had Tudor Vianu and Nae Ionescu as their professors. Cioran, Eliade, and Țuțea became supporters of the ideas that their philosophy professor, Nae Ionescu, had become a fervent advocate of a tendency deemed Trăirism, which fused Existentialism with ideas common in various forms of Fascism.
His first studies revolved around Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, and especially Friedrich Nietzsche. He became an agnostic, taking as an axiom "the inconvenience of existence". During his studies at the University he was also influenced by the works of Georg Simmel, Ludwig Klages and Martin Heidegger, but also by the Russian philosopher Lev Shestov, who added the belief that life is arbitrary to Cioran’s central system of thought.
Cioran revised The Transfiguration of Romania heavily in its second edition released in the 1990s, eliminating numerous passages he considered extremist or "pretentious and stupid". In its original form, the book expressed sympathy for totalitarianism, a view which was also present in various articles Cioran wrote at the time, and which aimed to establish "urbanization and industrialization" as "the two obsessions of a rising people".
His last period in Romania was the one in which he exhibited a closer relationship with the Iron Guard, which had, by then, taken power (see National Legionary State) — on 28 November, he recorded a speech for the state-owned Romanian Radio, one centered on the portrait of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, former leader of the movement, who had been killed two years before (praising him and the Guard for, among other things, "having given Romanians a purpose").
He later renounced not only his support for the Iron Guard, but also their nationalist ideas, and frequently expressed regret and repentance for his emotional implication in it. For example, in a 1972 interview, he condemned it as "a complex of movements; more than this, a demented sect and a party", and avowed: "I found out then [...] what it means to be carried by the wave without the faintest trace of conviction. [...] I am now immune to it".
Professing a lack of interest in conventional philosophy in his early youth, Cioran dismissed abstract speculation in favor of personal reflection and passionate lyricism. "I’ve invented nothing; I’ve simply been the secretary of my sensations",[citation needed] he later said.
Pessimism characterizes all of his works, which many critics trace back to events of his childhood (in 1935 his mother is reputed to have told him that if she had known he was going to be so unhappy she would have aborted him). However, Cioran's pessimism (in fact, his skepticism, even nihilism) remains both inexhaustible and, in its own particular manner, joyful; it is not the sort of pessimism which can be traced back to simple origins, single origins themselves being questionable.
When Cioran's mother spoke to him of abortion, he confessed that it did not disturb him, but made an extraordinary impression which led to an insight about the nature of existence:
"I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so
seriously?"
~t he later said in reference to the incident).
When Cioran's mother spoke to him of abortion, he confessed that it did not disturb him, but made an extraordinary impression which led to an insight about the nature of existence:
"I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so
~t he later said in reference to the incident).
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ver·sa·tile
[vur-suh-tl or, esp. British, -tahyl]
sə
adjective
1.
capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks,
fields of endeavor, etc.:
a versatile writer.
fields of endeavor, etc.:
a versatile writer.
2.
having or capable of many uses: a versatile tool.
3.
Botany . attached at or near the middle so as to swing freely, as an anther.
4.
Zoology . turning either forward or backward: a versatile toe.
5.
variable or changeable, as in feeling, purpose, or policy: versatile moods.
Related forms
ver·sa·tile·ly, adverb
ver·sa·til·i·ty, ver·sa·tile·ness, noun
non·ver·sa·til·i·ty, noun
un·ver·sa·tile, adjective
un·ver·sa·tile·ly, adverb
Synonyms
1, 2. adaptable, all-around. 2. handy.
1, 2. adaptable, all-around. 2. handy.
Here the quote that lead me to discover, this very interesting man.
Matching Quote
"Reason is a whore,
surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness."
~(E.M. Cioran)~
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And now for the creation of a new portmanteau...
UNIVERSAL + VERSATILE(NESS)
=
UNIVERSATILE
(NESS)
GOD!
No one reasons unless they have to!
Simply Jim:
Going to figure some way around this...?
Just gotta!
How weird...
looks like Loch Ness Monster...
LOL
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