“…all of the philosophers put together are not worth a single saint.”
Tears and Saints (1937)
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Emil M. Cioran 531
Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
Variant: They're a rotten lot," I shouted, across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
Source: The Great Gatsby
“Prometheus is the most eminent saint and martyr in the philosophical calendar.”
Prometheus ist der vornehmste Heilige und Märtyrer im philosophischen Kalender.
The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature (1841)
“All art puts separateness and togetherness together. All selves want to do this.”
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
XI. 514–515 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Every single individual worth what he thinks he is worth.”
Original: Ogni singolo individuo vale quanto pensa di valere.
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“I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I would rather be a satyr than a saint.”
From Preface
Ecce Homo (1888)
“On film you put all your energies into a single glance. ”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
Context: The difference between men is in their principle of association. Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance; others by intrinsic likeness, or by the relation of cause and effect. The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. For the eye is fastened on the life, and slights the circumstance. Every chemical substance, every plant, every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause, the variety of appearance.
On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
Variant: The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on the earth.