An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm. - Emil Cioran

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

Out of the shadow of the abstract man, who thinks for the pleasure of thinking, emerges the organic man, who thinks because of a vital imbalance, and who is beyond science and art.

The source of an emotion is very difficult to grasp, but it comes to just that. That holds for all phenomena, for faith, etc. Why did it begin, how did it develop? and so forth—only he who has the gift of divination can perceive where it really comes from. But it is not accessible to reflection.