Emil Cioran Quotes

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

The specious figments of genius, and the erratic flights of philosophy, may excite our wonder, but they cannot stand the ordeal of scrutiny, or the Lydian touch of experiment.

Let the historians and the Ph.D. students work out their doctrines. I'm not interested in theories per se.

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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

I want to read philosophers.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academy