“A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.”
History and Utopia (1960)
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Emil M. Cioran 531
Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
“My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.”
In an interview in Film Comment, May/June 1990
Interviews
“So many people did it that it was no longer an obsession; it was a demographic.”
Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 4, “Geomorphological Processes” (p. 77)
“We are all the aggregate of the ideas about us, including our own ideas about us.”
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: We are all the aggregate of the ideas about us, including our own ideas about us. That is all that any of us can be considered as – units of information in a sea of information. When you get to a certain point, there is not much more to it than information. <!-- Which for our terms is practically synonymous with language, because that is the only way we understand information, in one sort of language or another.
Source: The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century, (2000), p. x
“Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art”
“I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.”
Quoted in Christoffer Boe: "I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit," http://www.indiewire.com/article/park_city_06_christoffer_boe_i_liked_movies_so_much_that_they_became_an_obs/ interview with indieWIRE (January 11, 2006)
Page 57, describing Maxine.
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)
“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea, they become powerless when they oppose it.”
Source: The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, 2014, p. 6 (letter from a German businessman)