For Cioran the aphoristic style is less a principle of reality than a principle of knowing: that it's the destiny of every profound idea to be quickly checkmated by another idea, which it itself has implicitly generated.


'Thinking against oneself': reflections on Cioran, p. 79. - Styles of Radical Will (1966)

Susan Sontag Quotes

For Cioran the aphoristic style is less a principle of reality than a principle of knowing: that it's the destiny of every profound idea to be...

For Cioran the aphoristic style is less a principle of reality than a principle of knowing: that it's the destiny of every profound idea to be...

For Cioran the aphoristic style is less a principle of reality than a principle of knowing: that it's the destiny of every profound idea to be...

For Cioran the aphoristic style is less a principle of reality than a principle of knowing: that it's the destiny of every profound idea to be...