Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Atheism
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Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.
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My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.
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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
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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.
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"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.
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