Thoughts on E.M. Cioran?
Thoughts on E.M. Cioran?
Samuel Brown
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David Cook
King of edgelords
Justin Gray
>"In the days when I set off on month-long bicycle tripsacross France, my greatest pleasure was to stop incountry cemeteries, to stretch out between two graves,and to smoke for hours on end. I think of those days asthe most active period of my life."
based and comfypilled
Christian James
Jason Lopez
BASED
Chase Anderson
So pratically his philosophy was based on pussying out of suicide
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“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
― Emil Cioran
Bentley Morris
Where should I start with him?
Bentley Mitchell
A short history of decay or The trouble with being born
Ryan Ramirez
*On the Heights of Despair*, then proceed with *A Short History of Decay* and finally, *The Trouble with Being Born*
Connor Ortiz
anywhere
Wyatt Hughes
On the heights of despair, his first book
Gabriel Flores
Sebastian Ramirez
Cioran should be analyzed in order to get insights in help people to not commit suicide.
Nolan Hughes
Personally the greatest pessimist ever.
Colton Sanchez
>obsessed by suicide
>keeps bitching and whining about life
>ultra-edgy emo
>runs like a pussy from native country to hide out in wuss-land (France)
>starts whining about being "an exile"
>dies at 84
Discarded.
Brody Bell
People miss what makes him valuable as a 'philosopher' so to speak. He's completely unsystematic, or at least he systematically de-sysmatysises what others try (in vain, he'd suggest) to make systematic. Other than that he's just a pretty ruthless critic of the illusions people, including himself, live by. He's like a fundamentalist Mahayana Buddhist. Short History of Decay and/or The Temptation to Exist.
Chase Williams
this
>On the heights of despair
not this
Connor Kelly
Pretty sure you would have the same life if you suffered from chronic insomnia user.
Imagine never sleeping, Cioran had an incredible strength and soul for arriving in absolute lucidity until the end.
William Reed
>In 1933, he received a scholarship to the University of Berlin, where he came into contact with Klages and Nicolai Hartmann. While in Berlin, he became interested in the policies of the Nazi regime, contributed a column to Vremea dealing with the topic (in which Cioran confessed that "there is no present-day politician that I see as more sympathetic and admirable than Hitler",[2] while expressing his approval for the Night of the Long Knives—"what has humanity lost if the lives of a few imbeciles were taken"),[3] and, in a letter written to Petru Comarnescu, described himself as "a Hitlerist".[4] He held similar views about Italian fascism, welcoming victories in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, arguing that: "Fascism is a shock, without which Italy is a compromise comparable to today's Romania".[5]
Brayden Gray
He would have become an alcoholic in his native country.
Jacob Evans
Why has Cioran become so popular here recently? Is it just one guy starting these threads?
In any case, I won't complain, Cioran's voice may be the most needed on a site filled with incels and future mass shooters
Ryan Flores
>He later renounced not only his support for the Iron Guard, but also his nationalist ideas. In an interview in 1972, he condemned it as "a set of movements, more than that, an insane sect", and confessed: "I realized then [...] what it means to be transported by the waves, without the slightest hint of conviction. [...] Now I am immune to it. "
Andrew Price
>Cioran
>Houellebecq
>Stoner, by John Williams
I'm not complaining either.
Nicholas Sullivan
Imagine the conversation between these two.
Jaxson Taylor
Anyone have any English translations of his work? Only thing I can find is trouble with being born
Julian Phillips
Cioran's been on Yea Forums forever, one fag is making a few threads within a week
>Stoner, by John Williams
You're running late a couple of years Cooper
Jayden Green
Cioran on Nietzsche, from The Trouble of Being Born:
>To a student who wanted to know my position about the author of Zarathustra, I answered that it has been a lot of time since I stopped frequenting him. Why? He asked me. Because I find him naive. I blame his infatuations and his fervors too. He pulled down idols only to replace them with other ones. A false iconoclast with adolescent traits and I don’t know what kind of virginity, what innocence related to his career of lone man. He observed men only from the distance. If he’d observed them closely he never could have conceived and celebrate the Ubermensch: a rummy vision, a laughable, if not grotesque, chimera or caprice that could only spring from the mind of someone who didn't have the time to live, to age, to know the real detachment and the long serene disgust.
>Marcus Aurelius is much more close to me. There’s no hesitation in me between the absolute lyricism of frenzy and the prose of acceptance. I find more comfort, and even more hope too, in a tired imperator than in a thunderstruck prophet.
Landon Price
Absolutely based, Nietzsche BTFO.
Caleb Gomez
I, without doubt, prefer the thunderstruck prophet. Because Cioran was something between a feral animal and a poet.
Brayden Lewis
Based
Gabriel Stewart
In our current age the equivalent of 'thunderstruck prophets' are the average basement dweller neets.
Ayden Sanchez
Damn, didn't know Cioran was a supporter of the Iron Guard
Nolan Torres
Former member. He retired or he was retired.
Christian Rogers
Didn't strike me as being part of his character, even if it did occur when he was younger
Ayden Cook
I'm ok with that. I'm one.
Juan Cook
Retard
Luke Cruz
After Codreanu was assassinated the movement took a more extremist turn under Sima
Cioran wasn't OK with that violence,
Bentley Hughes
t. thunderstruck
Connor Peterson
his best buk?
John Gutierrez
The Eraserhead of literature.
Samuel Collins
>implying that's not true
Dylan Smith
You either love him or you hate him, he's no Kant or Hegel when it comes to his contribution to philosophy, but everyone I felt a profound spiritual connection to him when I read "On the Heights of Despair"
So yeah, based and blackpilled
Isaac Watson
He's cute. :3
Christian Morales
So he was based?
Joseph Taylor
The Book of Delusions.