"Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce."

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Source : "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

Emile M. Cioran

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