“When we refuse to admit the interchangeable character of ideas, blood flows… Firm resolves draw the dagger; fiery eyes presage slaughter. No wavering mind, infected with Hamletism, was ever pernicious: the principle of evil lies in the will’s tension, in the incapacity for quietism, in the Promethean megalomania of a race that bursts with ideals, that explodes with its convictions, and that, in return for having forsaken doubt and sloth ―vices nobler than all its virtues― has taken the path to perdition, into history, that indecent alloy of banality and apocalypse… Here certitudes abound: suppress them, best of all suppress their consequences, and you recover paradise. What is the Fall but the pursuit of a truth and the assurance you have found it, the passion for a dogma, domicile within a dogma?”
Emil Cioran – The Genealogy of Fanaticism (1949)
Writer Between Worlds 