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Emile M. Cioran quotes about god

Romanian Philosopher April 8, 1911 – June 20, 1995

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Emile M. Cioran quote: "All that is Life in me urges me to give up God."
All that is Life in me urges me to give up God. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to..."
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. Emile M. Cioran
The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness. Emile M. Cioran
What right have you to pray for me? I need no intercessor, I shall manage alone. The prayers of a wretch I might accept, but no one else’s, not even a saint’s. I cannot bear your bothering about my salvation. If I apprehend salvation and flee it, your prayers are merely an indiscretion. Invest them elsewhere; in any case, we do not serve the same gods. If mine are impotent, there is every reason to believe yours are no less so. Even assuming they are as you imagine them, they would... Emile M. Cioran
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority. Emile M. Cioran
Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic. Emile M. Cioran
The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It’s not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul. Emile M. Cioran
If it is true that God dislikes taking sides, I should feel no awkwardness in His presence, so pleased would I be to imitate Him, to be like Him, in everything, “without opinion. Emile M. Cioran
A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you..."
The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God. Emile M. Cioran
At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning. Emile M. Cioran
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in..."
The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame. Emile M. Cioran
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "We understand God by everything in ourselves that is..."
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. Emile M. Cioran

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