Sunday, March 1, 2009

A sentence by Emile Cioran

Cioran was a consummate master of lapidary aphorisms.
Here is one, dear to my heart:

On ne réfléchit que parce qu'on se dérobe à l'acte.
Penser, c'est être en retrait.

We reflect for no other reason than to avoid doing.
To think, is to be in withdrawal

It is true. I have pondered enough. To me, now, there is nothing else but Doing.

4 comments:

pendens proditor said...

"The Trouble With Being Born" is still my favorite book title.

Polymathicus said...

It is indeed hard to beat...:)

Anonymous said...

So what are you going to do? What did all this pondering get you? What can you do?

Polymathicus said...

I am certainly not going to tell an anonymous what I will do.
Make yourself known and perhaps you''ll know...