“Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that he alone pursues the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear.”
More from E. M. Cioran
“We are all violent ones, the enraged, who, having lost the key to quietude, have access…”
“To hope is to contradict the future.”
“Almost all our discovers are due to our violences, to the exacerbation of our instability.”