There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...
Quotation
Date:
- 1942
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If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. Discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Edipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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