Emil Cioran Quotes

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

We are here to make another world.

We are out to rebuild the world.

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread.

Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.

I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.