Full Idea
This earth is a place where can confirm anything with an equal likelihood: here axioms and frenzies are interchangeable.
Gist of Idea
An axiom has no more authority than a frenzy
Source
E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 3)
Book Reference
Cioran,E.M.: 'A Short History of Decay', ed/tr. Howard,Richard [Penguin 2010], p.123
A Reaction
A perceptive and poetic expression of the modern anti-Euclidean and anti-Fregean view of axioms, as purely formal features of a model or system.