“Philosophy: impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.”
A Short History of Decay (1949)
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Emil M. Cioran 531
Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
“The night is a refuge far from the world where to give life to your ideas.”
Original: (it) La notte è il rifugio lontano dal mondo dove dar vita alle tue idee.
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“For such is the work of philosophy: it cures souls, draws off vain anxieties, confers freedom from desires, drives away fears.”
Nam efficit hoc philosophia: medetur animis, inanes sollicitudines detrahit, cupiditatibus liberat, pellit timores.
Book II, Chapter IV; translation by Andrew P. Peabody
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
The Philosophy of Atheism (1916)
“Fine Writing,” p. 306
Reperusals and Recollections (1936)
Gautama Buddha, Digha Nikaya, 16
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Book III : Chapter 2. Quos Deus Vult Perdere
Scaramouche (1921)
“We want philosophers, among other reasons, because the world is full of false philosophy.”
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Context: We want philosophers, among other reasons, because the world is full of false philosophy. The way of experience is beset on every hand by a multitude of verbal judgments, of empty phrases, of word-copies, which pass themselves off as the real thing, which pretend to do duty for concrete fact and, by force of their number and importunity, capture our attention and cause the true originals to be overlooked. If it is true that philosophy must perforce fight its battles with words, is it not equally true that words are the weapons against which it must everywhere contend? The philosopher bent on the enlargement of experience perceives at once that his work cannot be done, cannot even be commenced, until he has cleared away the heaps of verbal detritus under which the bedrocks of experience lie buried.