Emile M. Cioran Mind Quotations

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more often.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.