In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs, ideas take their place in time, take shape as events: the trajectory is complete, from logic to epilepsy… whence the birth of ideologies, doctrines, deadly games.
—first sentence of E.M. Cioran’s A Short History of Decay, orig. Précis de decomposition, tr. Richard Howard. PDF
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