Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
Emile M. CioranI have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.
Emile M. CioranBetween the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.
Emile M. Cioran