I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday. - Emil Cioran

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are. If we had the right sense of our position in the world, if to compare were inseparable from to live, the revelation of our infinitesimal presence would crush us. But to live is to blind ourselves to our own dimensions. . . .

One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.