Almanac: E.M. Cioran on the ironies of history
"History is irony on the move, the Mind's jeer down through men and events. Today this belief triumphs; tomorrow, vanquished, it will be dismissed and replaced: those who accepted it will follow it in its defeat. Then comes another generation: the old belief is revived; its demolished monuments are reconstructed…until they perish yet again." E.M. Cioran, A […]