Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Belief
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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
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Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.
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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
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Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.
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The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
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No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief
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I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
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