[Scrap] Emil Cioran, 에밀시오랑...

Feb 1 2012 9:04 am
"The ethics to perfect totalitarian society ; the ultimate ethical duty is that of protecting the Other from pain, of keeping him in protective ignorance…"

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Mar 10 2012 11:25 am
"Jesus was Don Juan of agony… Saintliness is the negation of life through heavenly hysteria." - E.M.Cioran, [Tears and Saints]

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Mar 16 2012 2:44 pm
"Philosophical thought is always circling aroung God but rarely does it radiate from inside him."

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Mar 24 2012 10:40 am
"Becoming ; an agony without an Ending"

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Mar 24 2012 11:04 am
"What a pity that to reach God we must pass through faith!"

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Mar 26 2012 5:50 pm
"The Creation was the first act of sabotage… Sabotage of God."

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Mar 26 2012 5:52 pm
I’m not an atheist. I acknowledge that there would be God(s)… Like there be white crow or aliens from far space… But object to Faith or Religion. The existence of God is one thing, and the religion/faith is another. The existence of God is for God’s sake and the religion is for mankind, for some kind of human.

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Mar 31 2012 12:02 pm
Hegelian wolves…
Freudian white whale…

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Mar 31 2012 12:03 pm
Evil, the real evil, is behind… Not ahead of us.

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Mar 31 2012 12:11 pm
"What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification…"

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Apr 1 2012 4:29 pm
"Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one…"

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Apr 4 2012 8:20 am
"During the long nights in caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues-for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of philosophy."

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Apr 7 2012 11:11 am
"The more injured we are by time, the more we seek to escape…"

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Apr 7 2012 11:49 am
"Old age is nature’s self-criticism."

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Apr 7 2012 11:52 am
To be objective is to treat others as you treat an object„, a corpse.

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Apr 9 2012 8:18 am
To do evil is a pleasure, not a joy. Joy, the one true victory over the world, is pure in its essence, hence irreducible to pleasure, which is always suspect, both in itself and in its manifestations.

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Apr 10 2012 5:43 pm
 "천천히 다가오는 어둠은 고통이 아니다
  완만한 경사를 흘러내리는
  어둠은 영원을 닮았다…"
  - Jorge Luis Borges, Obras completas II

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Apr 13 2012 9:06 am
"What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets„, Just as bad philosophers read only philosophers…"

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Apr 13 2012 9:16 am
The old proverb, “Never judge a man without putting yourself in his place", makes all judgement impossible. For we judge someone only because, in fact, we cannot put ourselves in his place…