a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.
from The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International) by Albert Camus
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a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.
- Camus refers to the Artist as wholly embodying the absurd life, creating a new world parallel to our existing one that is entirely satisfied with description instead of explanation. This defines absurdity. The explanation for things is irrelevant, because in the grand scheme, there are none. All we have at our disposal are our descriptions, our per... See more
from Camus and Curren$y: Why I Preach Indie by Mark Sabino
Paulina Paucic added
Who you think you are--your notion of "self"-- is a mere cartoon, just as your notions of other people are cartoon versions of them, but critically these cartoons form the touchpoints of narrative that bind together our mental models of the world and our place in it.
from The Self Delusion by Gregory Berns
Debbie Foster and added
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- the only occasion on which man realizes his complete humanity by giving full “play” to both sides of his twofold nature, thinking and feeling.
from The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
Leo Guinan added
whatever the outcome of cultural conventions and conditioning may be, if we take the sense of self that is implicit in them to be an absolute and immortal truth, oblivious to the cultural contexts that give it substance and significance, we are likely to become as confused as we would be if we aspired to meet a fictional character from a film in th
... See morefrom The Invention of the Self by Andrew Spira
Debbie Foster added
a persistent theme that has a deep Augustinian resonance weaves its way throughout Camus’s corpus. It could be named in different ways: exile, alienation, stranger-hood.
from On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts by James K. A. Smith
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
(Eric Hoffer)
simon added
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
from As a Man Thinketh by James Allen