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.
added by Alex Dobrenko and · updated 3mo ago
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.
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.
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 moreDebbie 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.
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.